Hello,

I have the problem described in the SuSE knowledge base here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html

That is, with Windows XP installed, I did an ftp install on another partition of SuSE 9.1, and used parted to make changes to the partition table, and now GRUB does not even list Windows XP on boot, so that I can only boot into SuSE.

I am following the instructions linked above and have encountered a

brianwc@OCF.Berkeley.EDU wrote: problem.

Near the end of the CD-Rom driver-update process the knowledge base says:

"After completing the driver update, click "Back"."

When I do this it asks for CD 1 of the SuSE installation discs, and so I put in my FTP Install CD-Rom. This does'nt work and SuSE insists that I have not really inserted CD 1 of the install discs. Consequently, I never get to view the broken partition table to try to repair it.

Will the FTP disc not work for this driver update process? If I download and burn the SuSE-personal-9.1 iso would that work? Thanks for any tips.

It turns out that the personal disc is required and does work. In this case though, it said my partition table was fine. Instead, what I had to do was edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to add a section for Windows XP. The one that worked was five lines and read: ###This is a comment before the Win XP section title Windows XP Pro root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 Keep in mind that grub numbers starting with 0, so hd0 is your first drive and the ',1' refers to the SECOND partition. I had to do this because it was a Dell Latitude D600 which has a first partition containing some sort of Dell repair system, and my XP partition was actually the second one.

Brian