Hi,

I installed Sled 10 over the weekend and while Linux is working fine, when I attempt toDual Boot XP I get the following error:

Chainloader (hd0,0)+1
A Disk Read Error Occured
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del

I presume the problems something to do with the partition but don't have enough experience with Linux to fix it.

If anyone can advise it would be great, if you need any info just let me know what you need.

Thanks in advance!

From a terminal session in Linux, enter the following command and post (all of) the output(that's a lower case ell).
If nothing comes back, try "sudo fdisk -l" instead.

Hi, thanks for the responce, I get this:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2978 23912752 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2978 4864 15157296+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2978 3025 385528+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 3026 3768 5968116 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3769 4864 8803588+ 83 Linux

Hope the above helps,

Thanks

Nothing there stands out - does the NTFS partition mount o.k. in Suse, and can you navigate the files ???. Also let's see the grub conf

When I run cat /boot/grub/menu.lst I get:

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 1
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YasT2 identifier: origional name: windows###
title Windows
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

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title SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent
show0pts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YasT2 identifier: original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi =off noresume noapic maxcpus=o edd=off 3
=initrd /boot/initrd

How do I check the NTFS partition mount?

Thanks

There is a file called "/etc/fstab". You can look in that file to find the "mount point" of the NTFS partition. It is "/windows/C", or something like that. Suse should be mounting it. Open Konquerer, or file manager, and type "file:/" "Enter", and look for a directory that says windows and click on it. If there is anything inside, like a directory called "C", the volume is mounted. Otherwise, try "mount /mount_point. Mount point is the mount point from "etc/fstab", which is just a plain old directory. In Linux drives are mounted to directories, and drives also contain directories. The other thing is, SuSE adopted the insidious policy of installing the grub boot loader in the first partition instead of the MBR. So, you can put the SuSE CD in the drive, boot, act like you are going to install, but when it gets to the screen that says "new installation", click "other" and choose "repair installed system". When you get the repair screen, click on manual repair. Uncheck everything besides reinstall boot loader, and make sure it goes in the MBR. This is another terrible thing about SuSE, if you don't click "next" on the very same screen you check the MBR box, but instead go to another screen and then come back to the same screen you were on, your setting to install the boot loader to the MBR will be changed to "other". So, leave everything else the way it is, check the MBR box for where to install grub, and reinstall it. Then everything should work.

I suspect that the install to the MBR is o.k. - else highroller_100 wouldn't be able to boot Suse either.
No repair needed.

However if the boot sector of the XP partition did get trashed things are grim. highroller_100 enter the following from a terminal - it'll show us what that partition looks likeThere'll be a bit of output, just post it here - use sudo if needed.