SuSE and Windows XP boot problems

From: JasperH (jmh_at_somchem.co.za)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:14:49 +0200

Hi all,

I purchased SuSE V9.1 Pro. I partitioned my drive with PartMagic...and
installed SuSE.

SuSE boots up fine ....no problems....but XP does not want to boot. It gives
the following error:

root (hd 0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
chainloader +1

The computer stops at this point....

I downloaded the file parted.img.gz and created a floppy image as described
on the SuSe pages.
I created 2 floppy's, one from Windows (rawrite) and one from Unix..(just to
make sure)

I ran the procedure for the installation of the "partition fix", but it
gives a message "No drivers need to be updated" or something like that.

I can read all the data on the NTFS filesystem from Linux. What is the
problem here please?

I also tried changing the disk access mode in the BIOS from AUTO to LBA, but
when booting Windows, it wants to do an installation. Linux works fine.

I previously ran Fedora and XP quite nicely together. What else can I try
before getting another hard drive.

Much appreciated. 

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