Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Marshall Heartley <heartley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 01:08, Daly Gutierrez wrote:
> Hello to all.
> 
> Today I successfully installed SuSE Linux 8.2 on my machine (formerly running 
> only Win XP).  Problem: after selecting "windows" in the boot screen, I get 
> the following message and does NOT load Win XP.
> 
> "root (hd1,0)
>  Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc
>  chainloader +1"
> 
> FYI.  My drive configuration prior to SuSE Linux installation was as follows:
> The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda)
> My CD-Writer was the PRIMARY/SLAVE drive (/hdb)
> My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER HD (/hdc)
> 
> I made changes prior to the SuSE Linux installation, as follows:
> My NEW Hard Drive for Linux was now the PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda)
> The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/SLAVE (/hdb)
> My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER (/hdc)
> My CD-Writer was the SECONDARY/SLAVE (/hdd)
> 
> Your help is greatly appreciated!
> 
You will need to investigate the map option grub.  It can "switch" the
order of the drives so that Windows could boot.
Look in the SuSEHelpcenter and type in the word grub and have it search
the database.  Your situation is in there.  Give it a shot.

-- 
Marshall

"Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the
impossible, possible."