[wellylug] SuSE 9.2 / Windows 2000 boot issues

[Wayne Koorts]

Hi all,

I have just installed SuSE 9.2 (DVD edition IIMAD) with GRUB and I can no 
longer boot Windows 2000.  When I choose it from the GRUB boot menu it just 
shows the GRUB options (root(hd0,0), chainloader +1 etc.) and does nothing 
thereafter.  I used the SuSE installer to resize the Windows partition - 
something I've never done before.  I suspect that this may have something to 
do with it.  I know the data is still intact as SuSE mounts it on boot and I 
can access the data fine (it's NTFS).

Output of fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          5649    45375561    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2            5650        7297    13237560    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            5650        5777     1028128+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6            5778        7297   12209368+  83  Linux

GRUB's menu.lst (Windows section):

title Windows
    root (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

I have tried 'rootnoverify' instead of 'root' and also tried adding 
'makeactive', but none of that made any difference.  I have also booted with 
a Windows 2000 rescue disk and tried 'chkdsk', 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' which 
also made no difference.  'chkdsk' reports that the partition is perfectly 
fine, which I believe.  I have also tried letting YaST's boot configuration 
module write to the MBR, which also made no difference.

I have since restored the original GRUB configuration from the SuSE 
installation disk.

I have already googled this but didn't find anything satisfactory.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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Regards,
Wayne Koorts
Registered Linux User #330079
www.wkoorts.com