Right and I posted a week ago and got no response... Can someone tell me WHAT I need to change the menu.lst to make Windows Vista boot up again? I know I can "repair" it but that will wipe out the MBR that loads GRUB. Again: Two hard drives in system: /dev/sda Windows /dev/sdb SuSE SUSE bootblock on /dev/sda /boot on /dev/sdb1 Installed SuSE on 2nd drive, installer created "Windows 1" entry but it does not work. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Rajko M. wrote:

On Monday 21 July 2008 06:50:46 pm Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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I have a system with two hard drives, the 1st drive has (had) Windows Vista and the 2nd drive was blank.

I installed openSUSE to the 2nd drive and did not modify the 1st drive (I can still browse the contents at /windows/C & /windows/D) however I can no longer boot into Windows Vista after the openSUSE install.

When I boot the system the bootloader menu lets me select openSUSE and Windows but when I select Windows the system hangs at a black screen.

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Intentionally is very unlikely, but bug is possible. I know that you are not comfortable with bugzilla search from one of your earlier complaints that you can't find your bug reports, so here are bugs related to 'vista': https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406258 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402550

Symptom and configuration in first seems to be the same as yours, so you can join effort to debug the problem, but the problem is the same in both. The rootnoverify GRUB directive points in both cases to linux partition, not windows. I missed to report that, as XP is not that sensitive and boots anyway.

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On Tuesday 22 July 2008 05:50:51 Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

Right and I posted a week ago and got no response...

Can someone tell me WHAT I need to change the menu.lst to make Windows Vista boot up again? I know I can "repair" it but that will wipe out the MBR that loads GRUB.

Again:

Two hard drives in system:

/dev/sda Windows /dev/sdb SuSE

SUSE bootblock on /dev/sda /boot on /dev/sdb1

Installed SuSE on 2nd drive, installer created "Windows 1" entry but it does not work.

Could you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst please? The best way to find out is to boot to grub, press escape to leave the 'graphical' menu. then highlight the windows line. Press 'e' to edit it , changing the drive number in the 'rootnoverify' and 'chainloader' lines to suit, then hit 'b' to boot that modified entry. If it fails, you can easily try again. Here's my Windows entry: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,5) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 Note that grub doesn't use the linux standard for referring to hard disks (the /dev/ directory doesn't exist at this point, just disks exposed by the BIOS). I suspect you can use something like: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 but just try it and see what works for you. Bear in mind that Windows historically prefers to be the only OS on a system. Good luck Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Rajko M.:

On Monday 21 July 2008 11:50:51 pm Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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Installed SuSE on 2nd drive, installer created "Windows 1" entry but it does not work.

Do not use YaST. The problem is one of scripts that is used by YaST, and any change via YaST will not work. You can see in one of bug reports that it goofed manual correction in the same way as original installation.

Hi Rajko, wouldn't it be great if stuff like this showed up on the entry level of opensuse.org -> Discover it -> Reporting bugs as "Known issues and their fixes"? I must say that I keep being baffled how the most obvious and easy-to- make support stuff does not pop up in the right places. Instead good and solid advice like yours is being buried in mailing list archives where newbie people might have a hard time finding and contextualising it. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:55 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:

Vista/10.3 Dual Boot is working fine here. Just check your /boot/grub/menu.lst and make your windows entry look like the one below and you should be fine. I suspect your chainloader entry is borked. I only have a single disk, but "chainloader (hd0,1)+1" will be the same:

It's not the same as yours, but I have got it working with: title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org