[Bug 675427] New: Grub does not boot windows 95
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427#c0 Summary: Grub does not boot windows 95 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Factory Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: c.fleischmann@mnet-online.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.13 Grub does no more boot Windows 95. This error also occurs also with Suse 11.3 and Suse 11.2. Last time it worked was I think in 10.3. When I install SuSE 11.4 RC2 on a multi boot system, containing a Windows 95 partition. The bootloader recognizes a windows system and offers to boot Windows. When I try to boot Windows 95 an error message is displayed: HIMEM.SYS is missing. This error message is misleading since the same Windows partition can be booted without problems for example with older Suse installations or with Debian 5.0. I think it is related to the Grub version. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Windows 95 on some partition. 2. Install Suse 11.4 RC2 in some other partition 3. The boot loader offers to boot Windows 4. Try to boot Windows Actual Results: When you try to boot Windows an error message appears: HIMEM.SYS is missing. Expected Results: Windows is up and running. I observed the problem on following configuration: AMD K6 CPU on ASUS P5AB mainboard. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427#c1 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |c.fleischmann@mnet-online.d | |e --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2011-02-28 10:16:45 UTC --- Can you attach GRUB configuration files, information about disk parttion (some partition is not really specific)? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427#c2 Christoph Fleischmann <c.fleischmann@mnet-online.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|c.fleischmann@mnet-online.d | |e | --- Comment #2 from Christoph Fleischmann <c.fleischmann@mnet-online.de> 2011-02-28 21:33:16 UTC --- This is the disk partitioning: phoebe:/home/cf # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 82.0 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 9964 Zylinder, zusammen 160086528 Sektoren Einheiten = Sektoren von 1 × 512 = 512 Bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000783a5 Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sda1 63 10249469 5124703+ b W95 FAT32 # Win 95 /dev/sda2 10249470 14458499 2104515 83 Linux # Suse 7.0 /dev/sda3 14458500 15486659 514080 82 Linux Swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 * 15486660 160055594 72284467+ f W95 Erw. (LBA) /dev/sda5 15486723 23888654 4200966 83 Linux # suse 7.3 /dev/sda6 23888718 40676579 8393931 83 Linux # suse 9.0 /dev/sda7 40676643 61657469 10490413+ 83 Linux # gentoo /dev/sda8 61659136 77283327 7812096 83 Linux # suse 114 /dev/sda9 77285376 102463487 12589056 83 Linux # suse 113 /dev/sda10 102465536 160055295 28794880 83 Linux # data This is /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sa Feb 26 19:32:26 CET 2011 # THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader # Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader default 0 timeout 8 ##YaST - generic_mbr gfxmenu (hd0,7)/boot/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.1-1.2 root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.1-1.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_4R080L0_R2RANYME-part8 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_4R080L0_R2RANYME-part3 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x31a initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.1-1.2-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.1-1.2 root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.1-1.2-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_4R080L0_R2RANYME-part8 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x31a initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.1-1.2-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Linux other### ### this was changed manually title Suse 7.0 rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 ### this was added manually title Suse 11.3 rootnoverify (hd0,8) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Diskette rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 ---- end of menu.lst -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427#c3 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |c.fleischmann@mnet-online.d | |e --- Comment #3 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2011-03-01 10:11:25 UTC --- Where did you install bootloader (/etc/grub.conf says so)? Most of modern operating systems don't require their partition to be active for booting - here I'm not sure about Windows95, as it is already rather ancient and I don't remember where exactly this was changed. To boot your windows I suggest - changing the windows section to: title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 which assures the active flag is moved to Windows partition. However, you also need to assure that GRUB is installed to MBR, otherwise next time Windows will be loaded directly. There is no universal solution - some versions of Windows put their stuff to MBR which is not good to be overwritten, some need active partition which forces you to overwrite it. I think that fitting with more recent Windows in the default configuration is more important. Please, let me know if the suggested fix works for you. PS: We do not support installation to extended partition - we require a primary partition for bootloader. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427#c4 Christoph Fleischmann <c.fleischmann@mnet-online.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Version|Factory |Final InfoProvider|c.fleischmann@mnet-online.d | |e | --- Comment #4 from Christoph Fleischmann <c.fleischmann@mnet-online.de> 2011-03-20 18:18:17 UTC --- I changed the windows section as you recommended to title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 and the error remained the same. So the suggested fix did not work. By the way I had to change to SuSE 11.4 final meanwhile. I think that does not make any difference since it uses the same version of grub. I also tried to manually install the grub loader without yast: grub
root (hd0,7) setup (hd0)
this also did not resolve the error. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427#c5 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |c.fleischmann@mnet-online.d | |e --- Comment #5 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2011-03-22 08:06:44 UTC --- Can you boot Windows any other way (e.g. putting generic code into MBR, activating Windows partition and rebooting)? You will not boot Linux after this change. Actually, without you helping to find what's needed in the configuration to boot Windows95 we will not be able to fix this bug, the error message from Windows is not really helpful. We can try to suggest scenarios to test, but that's basically it. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675427#c6 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|c.fleischmann@mnet-online.d | |e | Resolution| |NORESPONSE --- Comment #6 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2011-07-18 06:00:52 UTC --- Resolving due to lack of input. In order to be able to install GRUB in a compatible way, we need you to find which way it works. -- 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.
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