Hi Tom, Here is a copy of my menu below. I have 2 HD's. I tried several different configurations and the more I tinkered then the problem of the loop boot would surface. I currently have it set up this way: 160 gig 100 XP 30 FAT32 30 FAT32 80 gig 1 Linux swap 79 SuSE The Loop boot problem popped up with this exact setup. I simply reinstalled SuSE and it works great now. Russ # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Jan 25 14:02:59 2004 color white/blue black/light-gray default 1 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd1,4)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SuSE kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd1,4)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title WindowsXP root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd1,4)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Memory Test### title Memory Test kernel (hd1,4)/boot/memtest.bin Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 08:11, Russ wrote:
I had this same problem except that it was SuSE that kept looping back to the GRUB screen. Never did figure out how to fix it. I just reinstalled. So far everything is working great (knock on wood). If you figure it out, I definatly want to know how you fixed it.
Russ
Hartmut Meyer wrote:
Hi,
Am Sonntag, 25. Januar 2004 08:15 schrieb Tom Nielsen:
I went to boot into Windows to play my favorite game....Rainbow Six (the only thing Windows is good for anymore) and when I clicked on Windows, all that happened was that the screen went black for a second and came back up to my grub boot options. I hit windows again and the same thing happened.
So, I went back to into Suse and checked my boot configuration. I see windows at: Windows other (hd0,0) (/dev/hda1) Everything looks correct. I think. Upon looking at my sections management for windows I see: Section Name Windows Section Type Other -------- root (hd0,0) chainloader +1
I think that's correct. Anyone have any thoughts?
Does that match your setup? Have you changed anything (e.g. added or moved a hard disk)?
If your setup is unchanged and booting Windows via grub has worked before you could simpy reinstall grub into the MBR:
grub < /etc/grub.conf
Greetings from Bremen hartmut
What does your windows boot option say in grub??
Tom