Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1672 mails)

[Yang Bo <oakyangnjucn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/11/2009 03:34 PM, jdd-gmane wrote:
> Le 11/12/2009 08:13, Felix Miata a écrit :
>
> > Also, share with us the output of fdisk -l (or equivalent if not only Linux
> > is installed) while booted to each OS.
>
> yes.
>
> and do you reach any grub menu? if yes pressing ESC at this moment
> gives you to a text menu and can allow using a console prompt. from
> this consol prompt, one can identify how grub sees the disks.
>
> in such case it's worth learning it. non trivial though
>
> jdd
OK, I installed OpenSUSE 11.1 on one disk, windows XP on another one.
11.1 was upgraded to 11.2 but this does not change anything. XP upgraded
to windows 7, don't think it's related to grub. So just ignore it.

Here is the output of 'fdisk -l'

--------------------Output of 'fdisk-l'--------------------------------
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          34      273073+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2              35         296     2104515   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             297        5099    38580097+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            5100       19440   115194082+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            5100       14023    71681998+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           14024       19440    43512021    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2dfb2dfa

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        3300    26507218+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2            3301       19457   129781102+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5            3301        8771    43945776   83  Linux
/dev/sdb6            8772       19457    85833728    7  HPFS/NTFS
-------------------End of output of 'fdisk -l'--------------------

OpenSUSE was installed on sda, but the data directory was in sdb.
Windows was installed on sdb, data directory in sda.

I'm not an expert of grub, but I know how it works. I tried every option
and command I know in the grub commandline, no success. Another problem,
it should be one. If I select sda(let's call it this) the boot deviece,
root(hd1,0), chainloader +1, boot will not boot the windows
installation. And grub4dos installed on sdb will not boot OpenSUSE.

I used my press a key and select the boot device method, it's a bit
annoying but worked.

Any suggestions how to solve this?

Thank you all.
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