I have 2 drives master 40 gig slave 20 gig .
The master has 1 partition in ntfs . the slave had 1 partition in fat32 .
During the install of suse 10 I told it to install on the 20 gig drive and re sized the windows partition.
I must have missed the part about how too config grub because I don't even see the XP choice at boot up. It just boots into Suse 10.

I also don't see my 40 gig drive in suse 10 when it's loaded.
Is there a way to fix it so I can boot either of system.

If I stick the XP disk in and repair the install can I use the suse disk to boot suse 10 after.
Thanks for any help
Allan
OH Ya I'm A newbie!!! to linux .

Which did you install first..Suse or XP? I would try to install XP first then Linux. I had the same problem and installing XP first worked. Windows will not recognize any Linux installs and will not work correctly. Installing Windows first should do the job.

Yes windows went on first.
When I installed Suse it wanted to format Hda where windows was I manually chose Hdb my slave drive with some windows back up files on it. Had it resize the drive After running defrag in windows. It installed there on hdb . I don't remember seting where the grub went.
Allan

It would make the analysis much easier if you could provide some data:

/boot/grub/menu.lst
/etc/grub.conf
the output of the command 'fdisk -l'
maybe also /boot/grub/device.map

You need to be root to access menu.lst and run fdisk!

linux:~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5005 40202631 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 20.4 GB, 20491075584 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 863 6932016 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2 * 864 2491 13076910 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 864 994 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb6 995 2491 12024621 83 Linux

Sorry all the other commands gave me Permission denied. Even after logging in as root.
Thanks Allan

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. The other "commands" are actually files and need to be viewed with an editor or simply cat. Try e.g. 'cat /boot/grub/menu.lst'.

OK I tried to open each of the files you mentioned.
For some reason each are marked (TYPE ) Unknown !
I choose (open with) and cannot seem to find a program that will open them.
I also tried to copy these files that won't work either.

Allan

They are plain text files. As I said previously, 'cat' or 'less' will work on console. You could try 'kwrite' from KDE. Don't forget to be root.

Ok got them
I didn't know about <Kwriter> I used the run command to open it. Is there away to make the menu list ALL available or installed programs?
Any how the info requested is below .

(hd1) /dev/hdb
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/had


Grub.conf
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd1,5) (hd1,5)
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd1,5)
quit


Menu.lst

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue May 9 00:07:26 UTC 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,5)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

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

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

Thanks Allan

Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but I needed to stay away from the computer on the weekend.

Your bootloader doesn't have an entry to boot windows which is a little surprising as SUSE should detect Windows installations automatically, but on the other hand it should be easy to fix.

Open /boot/grub/menu.lst with a text editor of your choice and make sure you run it as root.

Insert the following section where it should appear in the menu. Be aware that the default is set to the first entry. Then reboot and you should get a menu item to select Windows:

Thanks A load abisko00 That fixed the boot issue . I can now choose either Suse or XP and it booted both.
Thanks again
Allan