[opensuse] OpenSuSE Intentionally Cripples (disables) Windows Vista
I have a system with two hard drives, the 1st drive has (had) Windows Vista and the 2nd drive was blank. I installed openSUSE to the 2nd drive and did not modify the 1st drive (I can still browse the contents at /windows/C & /windows/D) however I can no longer boot into Windows Vista after the openSUSE install. When I boot the system the bootloader menu lets me select openSUSE and Windows but when I select Windows the system hangs at a black screen. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-07-21 at 19:50 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
I have a system with two hard drives, the 1st drive has (had) Windows Vista and the 2nd drive was blank.
I installed openSUSE to the 2nd drive and did not modify the 1st drive (I can still browse the contents at /windows/C & /windows/D) however I can no longer boot into Windows Vista after the openSUSE install.
When I boot the system the bootloader menu lets me select openSUSE and Windows but when I select Windows the system hangs at a black screen.
You may have a legitimate problem, but with the belligerent subject line you choose, I don't care. Plonk. Don't feed the trolls. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIhTJztTMYHG2NR9URAlDZAJ96tBQ+eESQWzfL1EO6UIS2lZzLRQCeNdIx i/IBHXN1vR20DFQFdBEEPR4= =ywde -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 21 July 2008 06:50:46 pm Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
I have a system with two hard drives, the 1st drive has (had) Windows Vista and the 2nd drive was blank.
I installed openSUSE to the 2nd drive and did not modify the 1st drive (I can still browse the contents at /windows/C & /windows/D) however I can no longer boot into Windows Vista after the openSUSE install.
When I boot the system the bootloader menu lets me select openSUSE and Windows but when I select Windows the system hangs at a black screen.
From http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette "Understand that the audience is passionate about SUSE and openSUSE, posting that you hate SUSE, Linux, the mailing list, or other closely related things, will most likely get passionate responses, don't take things too personally." Intentionally is very unlikely, but bug is possible. I know that you are not comfortable with bugzilla search from one of your earlier complaints that you can't find your bug reports, so here are bugs related to 'vista': https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406258 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402550 Symptom and configuration in first seems to be the same as yours, so you can join effort to debug the problem, but the problem is the same in both. The rootnoverify GRUB directive points in both cases to linux partition, not windows. I missed to report that, as XP is not that sensitive and boots anyway. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Right and I posted a week ago and got no response...
Can someone tell me WHAT I need to change the menu.lst to make Windows
Vista boot up again? I know I can "repair" it but that will wipe out
the MBR that loads GRUB.
Again:
Two hard drives in system:
/dev/sda Windows
/dev/sdb SuSE
SUSE bootblock on /dev/sda
/boot on /dev/sdb1
Installed SuSE on 2nd drive, installer created "Windows 1" entry but
it does not work.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Rajko M.
On Monday 21 July 2008 06:50:46 pm Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
I have a system with two hard drives, the 1st drive has (had) Windows Vista and the 2nd drive was blank.
I installed openSUSE to the 2nd drive and did not modify the 1st drive (I can still browse the contents at /windows/C & /windows/D) however I can no longer boot into Windows Vista after the openSUSE install.
When I boot the system the bootloader menu lets me select openSUSE and Windows but when I select Windows the system hangs at a black screen.
From http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette "Understand that the audience is passionate about SUSE and openSUSE, posting that you hate SUSE, Linux, the mailing list, or other closely related things, will most likely get passionate responses, don't take things too personally."
Intentionally is very unlikely, but bug is possible. I know that you are not comfortable with bugzilla search from one of your earlier complaints that you can't find your bug reports, so here are bugs related to 'vista': https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406258 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402550
Symptom and configuration in first seems to be the same as yours, so you can join effort to debug the problem, but the problem is the same in both. The rootnoverify GRUB directive points in both cases to linux partition, not windows. I missed to report that, as XP is not that sensitive and boots anyway.
-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrew Joakimsen a écrit :
Right and I posted a week ago and got no response...
Can someone tell me WHAT I need to change the menu.lst to make Windows Vista boot up again? I know I can "repair" it but that will wipe out the MBR that loads GRUB.
did you read the link provided by Rajko? it says the installer failed giving the right disk number. changing this may/may not fix your problem depending if it's the same problem, but it's worth looking at. look at /boot/grub/menu.lst for your vista entry to see if the disk is correct. jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 05:50:51 Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Right and I posted a week ago and got no response...
Can someone tell me WHAT I need to change the menu.lst to make Windows Vista boot up again? I know I can "repair" it but that will wipe out the MBR that loads GRUB.
Again:
Two hard drives in system:
/dev/sda Windows /dev/sdb SuSE
SUSE bootblock on /dev/sda /boot on /dev/sdb1
Installed SuSE on 2nd drive, installer created "Windows 1" entry but it does not work.
Could you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst please? The best way to find out is to boot to grub, press escape to leave the 'graphical' menu. then highlight the windows line. Press 'e' to edit it , changing the drive number in the 'rootnoverify' and 'chainloader' lines to suit, then hit 'b' to boot that modified entry. If it fails, you can easily try again. Here's my Windows entry: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,5) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 Note that grub doesn't use the linux standard for referring to hard disks (the /dev/ directory doesn't exist at this point, just disks exposed by the BIOS). I suspect you can use something like: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 but just try it and see what works for you. Bear in mind that Windows historically prefers to be the only OS on a system. Good luck Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 21 July 2008 11:50:51 pm Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Right and I posted a week ago and got no response...
There was some, and you answered.
Can someone tell me WHAT I need to change the menu.lst to make Windows Vista boot up again? I know I can "repair" it but that will wipe out the MBR that loads GRUB.
Again:
Two hard drives in system:
/dev/sda Windows /dev/sdb SuSE
SUSE bootblock on /dev/sda /boot on /dev/sdb1
Installed SuSE on 2nd drive, installer created "Windows 1" entry but it does not work.
Do not use YaST. The problem is one of scripts that is used by YaST, and any change via YaST will not work. You can see in one of bug reports that it goofed manual correction in the same way as original installation. So, start terminal from Main menu > System, switch to root user and start kwrite. If you are not sure how to do this, just ask. Open /boot/grub/menu.lst and edit windows section as Pete mentioned. The line to edit is probably now: rootnoverify (1,1) and it should be: rootnoverify (0,0) but as Pete said, it would be much easier if you post /boot/grub/menu.lst than you would be able to see change ion context of menu.lst . -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M.:
On Monday 21 July 2008 11:50:51 pm Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Installed SuSE on 2nd drive, installer created "Windows 1" entry but it does not work.
Do not use YaST. The problem is one of scripts that is used by YaST, and any change via YaST will not work. You can see in one of bug reports that it goofed manual correction in the same way as original installation.
Hi Rajko, wouldn't it be great if stuff like this showed up on the entry level of opensuse.org -> Discover it -> Reporting bugs as "Known issues and their fixes"? I must say that I keep being baffled how the most obvious and easy-to- make support stuff does not pop up in the right places. Instead good and solid advice like yours is being buried in mailing list archives where newbie people might have a hard time finding and contextualising it. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Right and I posted a week ago and got no response...
Can someone tell me WHAT I need to change the menu.lst to make Windows Vista boot up again? I know I can "repair" it but that will wipe out the MBR that loads GRUB.
Andrew, Vista/10.3 Dual Boot is working fine here. Just check your /boot/grub/menu.lst and make your windows entry look like the one below and you should be fine. I suspect your chainloader entry is borked. I only have a single disk, but "chainloader (hd0,1)+1" will be the same: 00:25 alchemy~> sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Jun 20 00:54:15 CDT 2008 default 0 timeout 6 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.18-0.2 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.18-0.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK1637G_Y7HOWKT1T-part6 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=0 showopts initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.18-0.2-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.18-0.2 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.18-0.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK1637G_Y7HOWKT1T-part6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off 3 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.18-0.2-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,5) chainloader (hd0,1)+1 -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:55 AM, David C. Rankin
Vista/10.3 Dual Boot is working fine here. Just check your /boot/grub/menu.lst and make your windows entry look like the one below and you should be fine. I suspect your chainloader entry is borked. I only have a single disk, but "chainloader (hd0,1)+1" will be the same:
It's not the same as yours, but I have got it working with: title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 25 July 2008 08:46:20 pm Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:55 AM, David C. Rankin
wrote: Vista/10.3 Dual Boot is working fine here. Just check your /boot/grub/menu.lst and make your windows entry look like the one below and you should be fine. I suspect your chainloader entry is borked. I only have a single disk, but "chainloader (hd0,1)+1" will be the same:
It's not the same as yours, but I have got it working with:
title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1
Nice to hear that :-) If you don't mind, when something is working/fixed, please give us feedback. It can be useful to know that something worked for many people that are looking for solution of the same problem via Google or on this list. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrew Joakimsen
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Carlos E. R.
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David C. Rankin
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jdd sur free
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Pete Connolly
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Rajko M.
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Wolfgang Woehl