After Installing Suse Windows would not load in Grub.

Christof999 · 10-22-2006, 09:28 PM

Hello,

A little back ground on my situation.

I have three SATA drives in my computer. One 250 for linux, one 80 GB for Windows and one 250 for storage.

I had no linux system installed, just windows. I decided to dual boot and install a copy of mandriva 2007. Everything installed alright, and when I rebooted windows still worked in Grub. I decided I didnt like mandriva and Install Suse, which I am very happy with. However, when I went to load windows I simply got this message.

chainloader (hd2, 0) +1

And nothing happens.

I have tried reinstalling grub, but the same thing keeps happening.

Here are my config files.

device.map

(hd2) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdc
(hd0) /dev/sdb

(sda is the 80GB with windows, sdc is the 250 storage, and sdb is the 250 is the linux root and home disk)

menu.lst

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Oct 22 22:35:39 EDT 2006
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sdb1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
chainloader (hd2,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

grub.conf

root (hd0,1)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,1) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menu.lst
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit

Any ideas on how I can get my windows working again ? The disk is fine, but grub just wont load it.

Thanks
Christopher

bigrigdriver · 10-23-2006, 12:02 AM

Since windows isn't on the first partition of the first drive, it will refuse to boot unless you work a little trickery on it.

Something like this:

title Windows
root (hd2,0)
map (hd0,0) (hd2,0)
map (hd2,0) (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

You will have to tweak these setting to suit your partition numbers to make it work.

Christof999 · 10-24-2006, 03:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigrigdriver

Since windows isn't on the first partition of the first drive, it will refuse to boot unless you work a little trickery on it.

Something like this:

title Windows
root (hd2,0)
map (hd0,0) (hd2,0)
map (hd2,0) (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

You will have to tweak these setting to suit your partition numbers to make it work.

Thanks that fixed it!

C.