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On Sunday 15 April 2007 11:50, Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 15 April 2007 10:55, Mike McCallister wrote:
Hi folks!
For some reason, Windoze has stopped booting on my system. I've had this machine for a couple years now, with WinXP sitting on a SATA physical drive and SUSE 10.0 - 10.2 on a separate IDE drive. I think the problem started when I got a portable USB drive that I had to turn off when rebooting (the BIOS would try to boot to it). I changed the BIOS so it would ignore the portable drive, boot to Grub (the IDE drive) first, then floppy, then CD.
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splash=silent showopts elevator=
^^^^^^^^^ I would remove above elevator entry unless you have purpose for it, but equal sign after elevator expects one of [anticipatory|cfq|deadline|noop], so it seems that it was entered by mistake (or bug).
See the old article http://lwn.net/2000/1123/kernel.php3 section "Riding the elevator" where you can find how usefull is for the desktop. If you have kernel source installed you can look in: Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
initrd /boot/initrd title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd1,0) +1
title Windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1
Device.map reads like this:
(fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd1) /dev/sda (hd0) /dev/hda
The YaST partitioner recognizes /dev/hda as the Linux drive, and /dev/sda as the Windows drive, with /dev/sda1 as the WIndows partition (and BTW, the files on the Windows partition are readable in Linux, so I haven't lost anything!)
Thanks, Rajko. Progress made, but no resolution yet. I added the suggested lines to the Windows entry of menu.lst and rebooted. When I selected Windows from the Grub graphical menu, a second, non-graphical Grub menu appeared. I selected Windows again and nothing happened. Selected openSUSE and booted normally. Are there really two map lines, or should I try one, then the other? Mike -- Mike McCallister ProTek Writing Services workingwriter@prodigy.net "Translation from the Geek a specialty" Notes from the Metaverse: http://metaverse.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org