Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3468 mails)

[Mike McCallister <workingwriter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 11:50, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Sunday 15 April 2007 10:55, Mike McCallister wrote:
> > Hi folks!
> >
> > For some reason, Windoze has stopped booting on my system. I've had this
> > machine for a couple years now, with WinXP sitting on a SATA physical
> > drive and SUSE 10.0 - 10.2 on a separate IDE drive. I think the problem
> > started when I got a portable USB drive that I had to turn off when
> > rebooting (the BIOS would try to boot to it).  I changed the BIOS so it
> > would ignore the portable drive, boot to Grub (the IDE drive) first, then
> > floppy, then CD.
>
> ...
>
> > splash=silent showopts elevator=
>
>                          ^^^^^^^^^
> I would remove above elevator entry unless you have purpose for it, but
> equal sign after elevator expects one of [anticipatory|cfq|deadline|noop],
> so it seems that it was entered by mistake (or bug).
>
> See the old article
>     http://lwn.net/2000/1123/kernel.php3
> section "Riding the elevator" where you can find how usefull is for the
> desktop. If you have kernel source installed you can look in:
>    Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt
>    Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
>
> >     initrd /boot/initrd
> > title Windows
> >     rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> >     chainloader (hd1,0) +1
>
> title Windows
>       map (hd0) (hd1)
>       map (hd1) (hd0)
>       rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>       makeactive
>       chainloader +1
>
> > Device.map reads like this:
> >
> > (fd0)      /dev/fd0
> > (hd1)      /dev/sda
> > (hd0)      /dev/hda
> >
> > The YaST partitioner recognizes /dev/hda as the Linux drive, and /dev/sda
> > as the Windows drive, with /dev/sda1 as the WIndows partition (and BTW,
> > the files on the Windows partition are readable in Linux, so I haven't
> > lost anything!)

Thanks, Rajko. Progress made, but no resolution yet. I added the suggested 
lines to the Windows entry of menu.lst and rebooted. When I selected Windows 
from the Grub graphical menu, a second, non-graphical Grub menu appeared. I 
selected Windows again and nothing happened. Selected openSUSE and booted 
normally.

Are there really two map lines, or should I try one, then the other?

Mike

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