[Bug 473659] New: Win98 does not boot anymore after installation of 11.1
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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659#c1 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |axel.braun@gmx.de --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2009-02-09 03:36:39 MST --- Does activating the partition with Windows 98 help to solve the problem (e.g. via parted)? This sounds to me like the only explanation what can be wrong. YaST is not able to detect Windows version; newer versions do not need to have the partition active, but older ones do. You need to have GRUB installed in MBR before activating Windows 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659 User axel.braun@gmx.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659#c2 Axel Braun <axel.braun@gmx.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|axel.braun@gmx.de | --- Comment #2 from Axel Braun <axel.braun@gmx.de> 2009-02-09 10:02:51 MST --- (In reply to comment #1)
Does activating the partition with Windows 98 help to solve the problem (e.g. via parted)? This sounds to me like the only explanation what can be wrong.
no, it does not, dev/sda1 is already active
YaST is not able to detect Windows version; newer versions do not need to have the partition active, but older ones do. You need to have GRUB installed in MBR before activating Windows partition.
Grub is installed in the MBR.... I found another explanation: http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=101231#p618157 -- 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=473659 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659#c3 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jsrain@novell.com |duwe@novell.com --- Comment #3 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2009-02-10 06:49:50 MST --- Thanks for the link. Torsten, can you comment on it? My German is not perfect, but it sounds to me like it is problem inside GRUB and I don't think that there is any way YaST could workaround 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=473659 User duwe@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659#c4 Torsten Duwe <duwe@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #4 from Torsten Duwe <duwe@novell.com> 2009-02-10 07:10:17 MST --- This is a known issue. Our grub does not support chainloading prehistoric OSes any more, for the sake of clear and simple support of MacBooks and the like. Workaround: update windoze or install a 16-bit real-mode boot selector. -- 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=473659 User duwe@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659#c5 --- Comment #5 from Torsten Duwe <duwe@novell.com> 2009-02-10 07:14:47 MST --- post-mortem: "testi" in that forum is right. -- 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=473659 User axel.braun@gmx.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473659#c6 --- Comment #6 from Axel Braun <axel.braun@gmx.de> 2009-02-10 11:02:12 MST --- Yep, I used XOSL as recommended, works now when 11.1-grub is installed into the extended partition. Anyway, some kind of information in grub about this fact would really be helpful.... -- 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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