https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047#c2 --- Comment #2 from Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> 2011-05-06 09:08:51 UTC --- y2logs - see attachment 428178. Grub is working fine. I can boot openSUSE etc. The problem is really just that Windows doesn't boot when selected from grub. Is there anything special I have to do to make that work? I've got two other machines openSUSE+WinXP, these work fine but they're using lilo. -- 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=692047 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047#c4 Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|installation causes |installation causes |existing windows 7 |corruption/removal of |installation to stop |windows 7 boot manager |booting "BOOTMGR is | |missing". | --- Comment #4 from Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> 2011-05-06 10:08:03 UTC --- No, like I've been saying, there is no grub problem here. However, I have progress to report. The Windows Repair Disc reports that it has found a problem with the "my computers startup options". I said "please repair" after which the machine rebooted, again from the repair disc. Once up, I asked it to go repair/recover the Windows 7 installation, where is reported "Root cause found: boot manager is missing or corrupt". After this repair, I booted the rescue system, marked my openSUSE root partition as bootable, and rebooted - et voila! everything works. The questions remains - how did the installation of openSUSE screw up the windows boot manager? Is the boot manager perhaps installed at the end of a partition, which would cause the resizing to screw it up? -- 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=692047 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047#c6 Stefan Quandt <squan@web.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |squan@web.de --- Comment #6 from Stefan Quandt <squan@web.de> 2011-05-07 05:58:54 UTC --- I had ecactly the same experience when installing 11.4 on a Toshiba R700. Linux bootet just fine, but attempting to boot windows gave me "BOOTMGR is missing". The reason for this is the notebooks nonstandard partition layout, where there is a small sda1 windows boot partition which is distinct from the windows OS partition sda2 and that yast2 grub configurator does not correctly detect this and creates a windows boot entry pointing directly to sda2. Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sda1 2048 821247 409600 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE /dev/sda2 821248 139526457 69352605 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 * 139528192 625141759 242806784 f W95 Erw. (LBA) /dev/sda5 139530240 606502911 233486336 83 Linux /dev/sda6 606504960 608606207 1050624 83 Linux /dev/sda7 608608256 625104895 8248320 82 Linux Swap / Solaris While in fact this "makes any newbie run away screaming" the fix was just adjusting the partition of the "rootnoverify" entry of the grub windows boot entry in /etc/boot/grub/menu.lst. Trivial for anyone skilled with grub. -- 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=692047 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047#c8 Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|installation causes |installation does not know |corruption/removal of |how to handle the windows |windows 7 boot manager |boot manager partition --- Comment #8 from Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> 2011-05-07 08:59:11 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6)

I had ecactly the same experience when installing 11.4 on a Toshiba R700. Linux bootet just fine, but attempting to boot windows gave me "BOOTMGR is missing".

The reason for this is the notebooks nonstandard partition layout, where there is a small sda1 windows boot partition which is distinct from the windows OS partition sda2 and that yast2 grub configurator does not correctly detect this and creates a windows boot entry pointing directly to sda2.

So the WinRE partition is a boot manager partition where Windows really should be booted from? Interesting, thanks. I guess this is new with the latest Windows variations?

While in fact this "makes any newbie run away screaming" the fix was just adjusting the partition of the "rootnoverify" entry of the grub windows boot entry in /etc/boot/grub/menu.lst. Trivial for anyone skilled with grub.

Certainly trivial, but it doesn't seem that many people actually know this. YaST needs to be fixed, certainly. (In reply to comment #7)

exactly what is described in the document I quoted, and solved easily with updategrub (or manually)

jdd, I don't want to appear ungrateful, but none of the documents you referred to even mention that Windows now has a boot manager partition, nor the winRE partition. -- 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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