[Bug 445900] New: Setting Windows to default in Dual Boot, messes the boot entries and machine fails to boot
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445900 Summary: Setting Windows to default in Dual Boot, messes the boot entries and machine fails to boot Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta 5 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: pmadhan@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Beta-Customer - Initial Setup, Win XP (Default) + OpenSuse 11.0 Dual Boot - Installed Opensuse 11.1 Beta 5 - Detection and dual boot was initially all fine. - Changed the default to Windows and moved the Windows as the first entry in the list - After a reboot machine failed to come up. - Using repair option, added a windows entry and moved it to the top and set as default. Repair still complained about Boot loader configuration error - Using repair option, added a Windows entry as the third entry and let it be (did not make it default). Now repair boot loader check is happy - Reboot, things are working fine. Looks like something to do with making Windows the default causes some problem. Not sure if marking the win partition active will solve. But in that case, I would expect it to be done automatically as part of Install, when Windows is set a default. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Jozef Uhliarik
From your description is not clear if only windows has problem with star-up or openSUSE has also problem with booting. Could you write it exactly please?
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Madhan P
From your description is not clear if only windows has problem with star-up >> or openSUSE has also problem with booting. Could you write it exactly please?
It does not boot at all - neither Windows or the OpenSUSE, initial boot menu itself does not appear - a blinking cursor appears and it just sits there and nothing happens. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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I got it working by hand. The bug is YAST2 or the perl-bootloader script activates the /dev/sda3 extended partition, but not the /dev/sda5 linux logical partition where grub lives. I changed the boot flag with fdisk manually and now dual-boot works again. The bug happens even if windows is second place in the boot menu. Here are the partitions (from memory): /dev/sda1 windows ntfs /dev/sda2 linux swap /dev/sda3 extended partition win95/lba /dev/sda5 linux ext2/3 filling 100% of /dev/sda3
Hope it helps, Frerk.meyer@gmx.de
I also have the same problem when I tried to make the windows partition to be default. It is nor first in menu. However when I try to change manually by fdisk boot flag from the extended partition (in my case it is /dev/sda4 to /dev/sda/sda6 logical partition where grub located I receive after reboot the message: "no active partition". If I make a boot flag to /dev/sda3 where windows vista is located I can boot vista. But even with with suse 11.1 repair installation I cannot boot into Linux. Any workaround solution is appreciated. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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