Quoting Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net>:
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On Wednesday, 2009-02-18 at 21:46 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
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So I tried using the whole disk with VirtualBox. The GRUB boot screen shows up, I can downarrow to the Windows line. On hitting ENTER, I see the GRUB commands:
It is quite dangerous this way... you could make a mistake and enter Linux again, mounting an already mounted filesystem and writing there.
Agreed, it makes me nervous too. But just the Windows partition doesn't work. I might try just the Windows partition and the root partition where GRUB is.
rootnoverify (hd0,6) chainloader (hd0,0)+1
Then the error message:
A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
A couple of things occur to me. The GRUB menu was set up back in the day when the hard disk was /dev/hda, now it is /dev/sda. Do I need to change the GRUB settings?
Reading the GRUB documentation indicates that this is not the problem, IDE and SCSI disks are the same from GRUB's point of view.
And is there any docs on how to discover disks, partitions, etc. from GRUB within VirtualBox.
Wading thru Googling VirtualBox and the error message yields a lot of suggestions, the one that worked is to boot the physical computer, at the boot screen hit ESC to get text mode, hit 'c' to get the GRUB console, and type "geometry (hd0)" to get the hard drive geometry (1024/240/63 in my case) and enter those values in the sda.vmdk file. Now Window boots, but BSODs. Unfortunately, it doesn't persist long enough to get any idea what the problem is. Anyone know how to lengthen the period before reboot? Another suggestion I found in Google was to native boot Windows and create a second hardware profile. I'll try in the morning.
I wonder if you could create another virtual disk, which contained grub, and this grub boots the "real" one, pointing to the windows partition. This is, of course, a wild idea, I do not know if it can work or if somebody tried.
I think the two partition solution above may be equivalent. I will try it in the morning. So, progress is being made. Thanks all, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org