Re: figured it out -- was Re: grub fails to boot

From: piperut (rbehunin_at_alumni.weber.edu)
Date: 08/16/05 

Date: 16 Aug 2005 12:27:36 -0700

Andrew wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > Andrew wrote:
> >
> >> Grub will boot linux 9.3 (suse) just fine, but it won't boot windows xp.
> >>
> >> When I try to boot to windows the computer just reboots itself. I
> >> never see anything from windows.. no windows xp splash screen.
> >>
> >> Windows is on one drive and linux is on a different hard drive. (both
> >> on the same IDE cable.) If I tell the bios to boot the windows drive
> >> and not the linux drive, windows boots up just fine...
> >>
> >> I have done some googling and from what I can tell my menu.lst file is
> >> set up correctly, although this is me, *heh* I've probably missed
> >> something simple again.. Could someone take a look and see what might
> >> be wrong?
> >>
> >>
> >> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Aug 13 23:18:51 MDT 2005
> >>
> >> gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
> >> timeout 8
> >> default 0
> >>
> >>
> >> title SUSE_LINUX_9.3
> >> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x314 selinux=0
> >> splash=silent resume=/dev/hda2 showopts
> >> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
> >>
> >>
> >> title Windows
> >> root (hd1,0)
> >> chainloader +1
> >> makeactive
> >>
> >>
> >> title Failsafe_--_SUS
> >> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=normal showopts
> >> ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic
> >> maxcpus=0 3
> >> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
> >
> >
> >
> > Forgot to add to my previous post
> >
> > The linux drive is the primary drive and the windows drive is my slave
> > drive.
> >
> > When I ran suse 9.0 with LILO I was able to boot to windows or linux at
> > will. Now with suse 9.3 and GRUB I can't ..
> >
> > What changed was the obvious move from 9.0 to 9.3 .. using GRUB instead
> > of LILO .. and took out the old windows drive and put in a new bigger
> > hard drive for windows. (wouldn't have replaced the drive but the old
> > one was about to die.)
>
> ahahhahahahahha I Got it..
>
> I found some old notes that spoke about remapping drives .. the notes
> were a little sketchy as to why this needed to be done.. but I new it
> had something to do with booting windows..
>
> here is the new menu.lst
>
> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Aug 13 23:18:51 MDT 2005
>
> gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
> timeout 8
> default 0
>
>
> title SUSE_LINUX_9.3
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x314 selinux=0
> splash=silent resume=/dev/hda2 showopts
> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
>
>
> title Windows
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> root (hd1,0)
> chainloader +1
> makeactive
>
>
> title Failsafe_--_SUS
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=normal showopts
> ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic
> maxcpus=0 3
> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
>
>
>
> all I did was remap the windows drive .. to make it think is was the 1st
> drive..
>
>
> although it remains to be seen if any of my windows programs will have a
> problem with that. But I don't see why it would, .. yet :-)

Take a DOS, Windows 98, or Windows ME disk, and run FDISK and make sure
the partition with your Windows loaded is set to active. Don't make
any other changes in FDISk. I have had Linux change the active
partition and set it to something other then the Windows Partition. By
taking one of these boot floppies and running FDISk and setting the
Active partition to the proper partition I was able to get windows to
boot.

I did have to run the drive mapper in partition magic and Windows did
remap my drives to new letters. I also had a couple of drives I had to
format and use the back up disks to put the data back on the drives.

Now the problem I am having is getting freedos to run...

roland

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