[opensuse] boot loader problem
- From: Dave <diacobel@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:44:10 -0500
Prior to installing openSUSE 11.1 I decided to upgrade to a larger hard drive.
I moved to a 500G drive and made one 120G partition on this drive. Using DD
and ntfsresize I moved Windows XP into this partition. I then installed
openSUSE 11.1. OpenSUSE created the following partition scheme and openSUSE
booted correctly.
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007d01a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 14940 120005518+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 14941 60801 368378482+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 14941 15202 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 15203 20424 41945683+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 20425 60801 324328221 83 Linux
Sda6 is my root partition and uses ext3. Sda7 is my /usr partition and uses
xfs. Grub resides in /boot on sda6. Here is a copy of the grub file.
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Jan 17 07:46:49 EST 2009
default 0
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.7-9
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
ST3500630AS_6QG12V6V-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500630AS_6QG12V6V-
part5 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.7-9
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-
ST3500630AS_6QG12V6V-part6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off
powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe
vga=0x31a
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
rootnoverify (fd0)
chainloader +1
I am not sure what happened but I was never able to boot into Windows XP.
The boot process would halt just prior to getting the screen with all of the
user names on it. I decided that instead of running fixmbr I would install
Windows 7 on the first partition instead. I have been wanting to try it and I
figured I was overwriting the mbr anyway and it shouldn't matter that much
since grub resides on sda6.
I was able to boot into Windows 7 after the install. I then went into fdisk
and changed the active partition from sda1 back to sda2 which was the active
partition set by openSUSE prior to the Windows 7 install. When I rebooted the
computer I got the message - No operating system found. Please insert a disk
into the cd-rom. Usually this is a bios message but why would I be getting
this message since the configuration correctly booted Linux prior to the
Windows 7 install?
I was able to get back into Linux using the install CD and am using Kmail to
write this post. I reinstalled grub both from the recovery disk and then
again by running grub-install from the terminal. If I reset the active
partition back to sda1 I am still able to boot into Windows 7.
How can I get the system to boot correctly and more importantly, what went
wrong?
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