Problem booting Win XP from boot window...
Hello to all. Today I successfully installed SuSE Linux 8.2 on my machine (formerly running only Win XP). Problem: after selecting "windows" in the boot screen, I get the following message and does NOT load Win XP. "root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc chainloader +1" FYI. My drive configuration prior to SuSE Linux installation was as follows: The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda) My CD-Writer was the PRIMARY/SLAVE drive (/hdb) My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER HD (/hdc) I made changes prior to the SuSE Linux installation, as follows: My NEW Hard Drive for Linux was now the PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda) The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/SLAVE (/hdb) My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER (/hdc) My CD-Writer was the SECONDARY/SLAVE (/hdd) Your help is greatly appreciated! -- Daly
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:08, Daly Gutierrez wrote: Hi Hello to all.
Today I successfully installed SuSE Linux 8.2 on my machine (formerly running only Win XP). Problem: after selecting "windows" in the boot screen, I get the following message and does NOT load Win XP.
"root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc chainloader +1"
FYI. My drive configuration prior to SuSE Linux installation was as follows: The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda) My CD-Writer was the PRIMARY/SLAVE drive (/hdb) My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER HD (/hdc)
I made changes prior to the SuSE Linux installation, as follows: My NEW Hard Drive for Linux was now the PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda) The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/SLAVE (/hdb) My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER (/hdc) My CD-Writer was the SECONDARY/SLAVE (/hdd)
Your help is greatly appreciated!
-- Daly
Windows cannot boot from the 2nd harddrive windows needs to be hda and not hdb With Linux it does not really matter. Ian - -- A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx - ---------------------------------------------------- This mail has been scanned for virus by AntiVir for UNIX Copyright (C) 1994-2003 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. PGP ID: 589F8449 Fingerprint: EB1C FACF 6BEB 540E 8AC0 F04E 2A25 A2F1 589F 8449 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+7ELEKiWi8VifhEkRApLbAJ915rIPog5FkQuRVd5l7Fv6ZVPSdACfX/Ec c7VG+QVrClV6Cc8JyR+Vnow= =MSeD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hi, On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:56 am, Ian David Laws wrote: <snip>
Windows cannot boot from the 2nd harddrive windows needs to be hda and not hdb With Linux it does not really matter.
Ian
With Grub you can fool Windows into thinking it is using the first hard disk. I have a small Win98 Fat 32 partition on hdb1. My /boot/grub/menu.lst entry for Windows reads: title windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 boot You could try this for XP. The above works for me and Win98. I think there is a similar option for Lilo, too. HTH, Jason
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:56:20AM +0200, Ian David Laws wrote:
On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:08, Daly Gutierrez wrote: Hi
Hello to all.
Today I successfully installed SuSE Linux 8.2 on my machine (formerly running only Win XP). Problem: after selecting "windows" in the boot screen, I get the following message and does NOT load Win XP.
"root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc chainloader +1"
FYI. My drive configuration prior to SuSE Linux installation was as follows: The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda) My CD-Writer was the PRIMARY/SLAVE drive (/hdb) My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER HD (/hdc)
I made changes prior to the SuSE Linux installation, as follows: My NEW Hard Drive for Linux was now the PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda) The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/SLAVE (/hdb) My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER (/hdc) My CD-Writer was the SECONDARY/SLAVE (/hdd)
So XP lives on /dev/hdb1? Post the output of fdisk -l
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Well... I not so sure I'm being much help here :-P I could be wrong, but it shouldn't surprise if XP doesn't boot, *because* it was moved to the new location. Not because it can't boot of off hdb, but because it wasn't *installed* there.
Windows cannot boot from the 2nd harddrive windows needs to be hda and not hdb
This is true of W$95/98, not so with W2K/XP.
With Linux it does not really matter.
Correct. HTH Jon Clausen -- If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap!
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 01:08, Daly Gutierrez wrote:
Hello to all.
Today I successfully installed SuSE Linux 8.2 on my machine (formerly running only Win XP). Problem: after selecting "windows" in the boot screen, I get the following message and does NOT load Win XP.
"root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc chainloader +1"
FYI. My drive configuration prior to SuSE Linux installation was as follows: The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda) My CD-Writer was the PRIMARY/SLAVE drive (/hdb) My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER HD (/hdc)
I made changes prior to the SuSE Linux installation, as follows: My NEW Hard Drive for Linux was now the PRIMARY/MASTER (/hda) The HD housing Windows XP was my PRIMARY/SLAVE (/hdb) My CD-ROM drive was the SECONDARY/MASTER (/hdc) My CD-Writer was the SECONDARY/SLAVE (/hdd)
Your help is greatly appreciated!
You will need to investigate the map option grub. It can "switch" the order of the drives so that Windows could boot. Look in the SuSEHelpcenter and type in the word grub and have it search the database. Your situation is in there. Give it a shot. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."
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