On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 19:31 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
Installed OpenSuse on a second drive, but now when I try to boot into Vista I get a unable to load bootmanager error. Does anybody know how to boot Vista properly?
Hi, here is a copy of my /boot/grub/menu.lst file to see how yours varies. My WinXp is loaded on my second smaller harddrive, which actually was the original harddrive on this computer. When I loaded Opensuse on this computer, I installed a second much larger harddrive and put suse on it. Windows wants to think it is on the first primary partition of the first hard drive. So I fixed grub to do that with the mapping commands. But now one must load the windows bootloader as a chainload, that is the reason for the chainloader command. # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Mar 13 17:21:40 EST 2010 default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.45-0.1 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.45-0.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620A_9QF3JS5F-part6 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620A_9QF3JS5F-part5 splash=silent showopts vga=0x317 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.45-0.1-pae ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.45-0.1 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.45-0.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620A_9QF3JS5F-part6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x317 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.45-0.1-pae ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) rootnoverify (hd1,1) makeactive chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 Hope this helps. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org