Hi, This is my first post, I was hoping somebody could help me set up grub to see my windows 2000 partition. When I try to boot with the current setup I get an error saying that the device is incorrect eventhough the file system is recognized as FAT. I am using SUSE 9.1 Pro. The partition table is:

/dev/hda 111.7 GB

/dev/hda1 90.8 GB Linux native /

/dev/hda2 1019.8MB Linux swap

/dev/hda3 19.9 GB Extended

/dev/hda5 19.9 GB Win95 FAT32

My grub conf file:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue May 4 12:32:42 2004


color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message

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title Linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hda2 showopts
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd

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title Windows 2000
root(hd0,4)
chainloader +1

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title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1

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title Failsafe
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd

"/dev/hda5 19.9 GB Win95 FAT32"

It has been a long time since I dual booted FAT32 on Win95 but if I remember correctly FAT32 will not boot from a logical partition and I seem to remember that it had to be /dev/hda1. Use:
/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
to see if /dev/hda5 is marked as bootable.

Does anyone remember FAT32 boot restrictions better than I do?

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Steve Stites

Hi, thanks for the reply! Here is what I got... it looks like the windows partition is not bootable.

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 232581 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 189082 95297296+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 189083 191154 1044288 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 191155 232560 20868435 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 191155 232560 20868403+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

I think that the solution to your problem is to rarrange your partitions so that Windows is on /dev/hda1. Before you go through all that work on my say so I would like somebody who is more familiar with Windows than I am to verify that moving Windows to /dev/hda1 is the correct solution.


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Steve Stites

grrrr.... I hope that there is another solution, I just got everything set up! Thanks for your help, hopefully someone else will post who knows more about this.

Hi,

I'm a long way from being an authority on this, but the two machines where I dual boot between Windows ME and Suse 9 have the FAT boot partitions at the start. Now I don't know if I did this by chance or with guidance.... all I can say is that it works.

It's not so much work if you have Partition Magic in Windows - that's how I created the empty partitions for Suse to fit into. In fact you may even be able to do it from Suse, but I wouldn't know how to do it safely.

Best of luck....

Irf.