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Hello.
I have two hard disks. On the first i have suse 9.2 and boot loader
grub. On the second windows xp.
If i try to start windows i get this error:
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
chainloader +1

I have probed to change rootnoverify (hd1,0) instead root (hd1,0) but it
doesn't start. I have change in bios the hard disk to lba mode instead
auto, but the result is the same.

Then i read this article but it is for suse 9.1(i don't find parted tool
for suse 9.2).

http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2004/05...booting91.html

Any idea ?


Thanks.

fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 132 14946 119001487+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 2549 20474811 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 2550 9729 57673350 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 2550 9729 57673318+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Erri wrote:
>
http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2004/05...booting91.html
>
>Any idea ?

That help page may or may not be your problem, I'm not sure.

One thing though, it's unusual for windows to reside on the second hd.
Usually, it is on the first.

Windows always assumes it is the only OS in existence and so therefore
it must be on the first (if not all) hd.

Question: Did you install the harddisk that linux is on after you
installed windows? If so, is that when you then went ahead and
installed suse? If not, what was on the first hd before?

What I'm getting at is that windows not booting may have nothing to do
with suse or grub. It may just be confused at being moved around.

In any case, I'd physically remove the linux disk, put the windows disk
in the hda spot and try to boot just that. if it works, you will have
your answer. You can then install the linux hard disk as hdb and boot
from a cd and have yast fix grub.

Yast can do funny things sometimes, but I have to say it usually
handles grub pretty well in normal circumstances.

Good luck.
Tom F.

I had windows installed. Then i plugged a new hd. Physically, i changed
windows hd to be second and new hd to be first , then i installed suse on
the first. I think i will try to change the sort of the hard disks and
install linux again or, don't i need reinstall ?.



"Tom F." <furtom2001@india.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:1105620077.138062.108880@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> Erri wrote:
>>
> http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2004/05...booting91.html
>>
>>Any idea ?
>
> That help page may or may not be your problem, I'm not sure.
>
> One thing though, it's unusual for windows to reside on the second hd.
> Usually, it is on the first.
>
> Windows always assumes it is the only OS in existence and so therefore
> it must be on the first (if not all) hd.
>
> Question: Did you install the harddisk that linux is on after you
> installed windows? If so, is that when you then went ahead and
> installed suse? If not, what was on the first hd before?
>
> What I'm getting at is that windows not booting may have nothing to do
> with suse or grub. It may just be confused at being moved around.
>
> In any case, I'd physically remove the linux disk, put the windows disk
> in the hda spot and try to boot just that. if it works, you will have
> your answer. You can then install the linux hard disk as hdb and boot
> from a cd and have yast fix grub.
>
> Yast can do funny things sometimes, but I have to say it usually
> handles grub pretty well in normal circumstances.
>
> Good luck.
> Tom F.
>

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:26:04 +0000, Erri wrote:

> I had windows installed. Then i plugged a new hd. Physically, i changed
> windows hd to be second and new hd to be first , then i installed suse on
> the first. I think i will try to change the sort of the hard disks and
> install Linux again or, don't i need reinstall ?.
That's definitely your problem. Put windows back as the primary master and
put the disk with SuSE on it as the slave.
You don't really have to reinstall SuSE. Linux doesn't care where it
resides. After you are done with the disks, just boot up SuSE and fix grub
with YaST. That should be all you need to do.
Tom F.
There are no numerals or underscores in my address.

"Tom F." <fur_tom502@earthlink.nospam.net> wrote in message
newsan.2005.01.14.03.20.24.53417@earthlink.nospa m.net...
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:26:04 +0000, Erri wrote:
>
>> I had windows installed. Then i plugged a new hd. Physically, i changed
>> windows hd to be second and new hd to be first , then i installed suse on
>> the first. I think i will try to change the sort of the hard disks and
>> install Linux again or, don't i need reinstall ?.
> That's definitely your problem. Put windows back as the primary master and
> put the disk with SuSE on it as the slave.
> You don't really have to reinstall SuSE. Linux doesn't care where it
> resides. After you are done with the disks, just boot up SuSE and fix grub
> with YaST. That should be all you need to do.
> Tom F.

It cares: if the grub, /etc/fstab and the swap locations point to /dev/hda,
it won't boot. I tried doing this with SuSE and found that they broke
grub-install rather thoroughly, which sent me fairly psychotic one evening.

It should be possible to rescue the SuSE with an installation CD or, for
SuSE 9.2, an installation DVD in this case.

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>
> "Tom F." <fur_tom502@earthlink.nospam.net> wrote in message

>> You don't really have to reinstall SuSE. Linux doesn't care where it
>> resides. After you are done with the disks, just boot up SuSE and fix
>> grub with YaST. That should be all you need to do.
>> Tom F.
>
> It cares: if the grub, /etc/fstab and the swap locations point to
> /dev/hda, it won't boot. I tried doing this with SuSE and found that they
> broke grub-install rather thoroughly, which sent me fairly psychotic one
> evening.
>
> It should be possible to rescue the SuSE with an installation CD or, for
> SuSE 9.2, an installation DVD in this case.
Sure. I didn't mean to imply grub wouldn't need to be reconfigured.
Certainly it must be. I'm just saying, as a point of general philosophy and
functionality _linux_ (including the whole distribution) doesn't care where
it resides.

Absolutely, the boot loader cares where it is and must be set up correctly,
but that's just par for the course. In older hardware, the kernel had to be
on a primary partition, but I don't even think that's true anymore. Though
I always make a separate /boot primary partition anyway.
--
Tom F.
There are no numerals or underscores in my address.