https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659 Summary: Win98 does not boot anymore after installation of 11.1 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: axel.braun@gmx.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko) SUSE On a 40G hard drive with installed W98 I created an extended partition and installed 11.1 fdisk -l Platte /dev/sda: 40.0 GByte, 40037760000 Byte 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 4867 Zylinder Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Disk identifier: 0x000cec29 Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 3135 25173855 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda2 3135 4867 13920291 f W95 Erw. (LBA) /dev/sda5 3135 3210 610407 82 Linux Swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 3211 4867 13309821 83 Linux When trying to boot /dev/sda1, W98 stops with messages like 'No XMS Driver installed', 'himem.sys missing' and some other nonsense. Having read about some grub problems in 11.1, I rewrote grub to the MBR using yast2-bootloader 2.17.44: No change. The only way to get Win98 starting up again is to boot from a DOS-Floppy and do a fdisk /mbr Of course, then is the access to 11.1 gone :-( cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Feb 6 19:03:41 CET 2009 default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 11.1 kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_4K040H2_672121910047-part6 splash=silent showopts initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.1 kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_4K040H2_672121910047-part6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ...se above 2. 3. Actual Results: see above Expected Results: see above -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.