Need help with Suse 9.1 and Windows 2000

Sketch · 11-02-2004, 08:17 PM

Hey folks,

I have two separate hard drives. hda has SuSE 9.1 and hdb has Windows 2000. Both are bootable and work fine on their own.

I went to this stickied post (top of Suse forum) but it appears that the tute refers to a dual boot on a single partition.

Also, before I am asked, the Windows drive is set to LBA though I don't think it's necessary since it is a separate drive from SuSE altogether.

When Grub boots up, I choose Windows from the menu and get this error:

Quote:

root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Chainloader +1

Here is my YaST generated grub configuration:

Quote:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Nov 2 17:17:11 2004

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Linux
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 resume=/dev/hda1 showopts splash=silent desktop
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd

What changes do I need to make to make this thing happen?

Thx.
Aaron

abisko00 · 11-03-2004, 02:51 AM

I guess this is a known problem of windows, which wants to be located on the systems first hdd. You can trick it with the map function of grub.

See:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/0...grub_win1.html

aus9 · 11-03-2004, 03:36 AM

check out my signature for the full tutorial but

title xp
hide (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

should work or try the paranoid version if above fails from my tut

Mad Malc · 11-06-2004, 05:57 AM

I don't know if the tricking it with GRUB mapping works but would also recommend you edit the pagefile (linux swap)default in Windows when you get it to boot, and set it in the windows partitionor create a separate partition of 1-1.5 times Ram.
One of the reasons Windows usually needs the first hard drive or partition is due to the pagefile default being drive C: which despite Windows hiding behind an Alphabetic label is Hd0,0. As windows can not read the file structure it being probably ReiserFS, Windows will fall over when it is stressed and resorts to using the pagefile when burdened with a heavy workload.

Hope this helps

Mad Malc

aus9 · 11-06-2004, 02:14 PM

sketch

no need to be concerned yet, but the paranoid version in my tut HIDES the linux bootable partitions.

don't use it unless you have to.

I have fully tested the map commands when I did the w98 post with w98 on a second drive.

2) there is no need to be concerned as the map command DOES trick windows into thinking its on c drive.
and it is important to use the map command so any tools you use WITHIN windows will map (write) to the correct drive.

We don't want to defrag a linux now do we?