Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Mark Knudson <mrk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olipro wrote:
> I have a 200GB HDD as Primary Master and a 60GB as Slave
> the 200GB contains SuSE and of course, GRUB.
> the 60GB contains GRUB (but not in use obviously) Windows XP & SuSE (my
> old installation)
> I will shortly be deleting the second partition (SUSE) on the 60GB.
> Windows XP used to boot as primary master and now whenever I select the
> entry from GRUB (I did update GRUB) the computer instantly "reboots".
> here is what I have setup grub as (bare necessary info):
> Disk Order: /dev/hda, /dev/hdb
> Sections:
> 	SuSE Linux 9:
> 		*(on hd(0,0))*
> 	Windows XP:
> 		type: Other
> 		root: hd(1,0)
> 		chainloader: +1
>
> I have changed my Windows XP boot.ini appropriately also but I don't
> think it's actually even managing to get that far. help would be
> appreciated


When I installed SuSE 9.0 on a new disk(hda) and moved my old Windows 
and Linux install to the second IDE channel, I had to change the 
menu.lst as follows:

title Windows
    root (hd1,0)
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    chainloader +1

Good luck.