please someone help me get windows to boot, i just can't find an answer that suits me:

1x sata drive, Windows XP
1x IDE drive, Suse 10

suse will boot fine, windows won't.


menu.lst

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Apr 17 18:15:24 BST 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message

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title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

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title Windows XP
chainloader (hd1)+1

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title Floppy
chainloader (fd0)+1

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title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd


device map:
(hd0) /dev/hdb
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd1) /dev/sda


any replies will be most appreciated

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

that didn't work
i got:
ERROR 12 - invalid device requested
thanks for tryin tho

cmon guys help a friend in need here!

Let's see the output from "fdisk -l" (ell, as in list)

Try adding "hide" to the list:

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

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 8172 65537167+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb3 * 8173 9964 14394240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 8173 8303 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb6 8304 9964 13341951 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 8924 71681998+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 8925 30514 173421675 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 8925 30514 173421643+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

got the same error 12 - invalid device request.

any ideas?

Frankly, I'm all out of ideas... I'll mull it over some more, but you might check out this link and see if there's anything useful...

I'm not really good with the grub command line, but you might try to boot to the grub command line (I think you have to hit some key combo during the grub menu) and try to boot Windows that way.

I'm with pljvaldez - what he suggested sounded sane.
Try using simplyYes, I know. Try it.

got it to work but talk about needing a brick wall doh!

i really should pay more attention to all those radio buttons in yast, i might be able to keep track of what i'm actually doing then!
i realised that i'd written over the mbr with the boot windows info on, and i take it when grub loads, if u choose windows, it passes control back over to the mbr on the windows disk..
so after much routing for xp cds and raid drivers i ran the windows recovery, fixboot and fixmbr commands, then back to suse and to yast ... and hey presto your original solution
works a treat.

apologies for being stupid.
thanks for the help