Re: SuSE 9.1 upgrade - dual boot disaster

From: Franz Gräml (fgraeml_at_web.de)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:56:56 +0200

Walkaway Renouf wrote:

> Help! I've installed 9.1 Pro as dual-boot on a PC and now it won't boot
> Windows.
>
> In fact, I installed on two Dell machines. Both were already dual-boot,
> and both had two hard drives - one with WinXP and the other running
> (until now) Mandrake 10CE. In both cases I did a fresh install.
>
> On one machine it all went flawlessly. That has WinXP on hda and Linux
> on hdb, booting using Grub.
>
> The second machine has Linux on hda and WinXP on hdb (it's a long
> story). It was dual-booting with Mandrake (using Lilo) without any
> trouble. After installing SuSE 9.1, it'll boot Linux without a worry
> (from where I can read the other HD and get access to the Windows
> files), but it hangs trying to boot Windows, just showing the following:
>
> root (hd1,1)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
> chainloader +1
>
> The hd1,1 config is because these Dell machine appear to have a 47Mb
> Dell partition that I never knew anything about before (the other
> machine, which is working okay, is booting Windows from hd0,1).
>
> I tried switching to Lilo, and this hung with the message "Loading
> Windows".
>
> I've Googled on this but so far haven't come up with anything that helps
> (other than one suggestions that involves completely reinstalling
> Windows and Linux - I haven't time for that, and if push comes to shove
> I'll rip out the Linux HD and make it a Windows-only machine again).
>
> Anyone got any ideas? I'd appreciate any help.

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html

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