[wellylug] SuSE 9.2 / Windows 2000 boot issues

sivad.a at paradise.net.nz sivad.a at paradise.net.nz
Thu May 12 08:57:56 NZST 2005


I've had this also with 9.2 and 9.3. This is documented, for 9.1 
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html the 
quick fix to LBA is all I bothered doing.

Alec Davis
Quoting Wayne Koorts <wayne at wkoorts.com>:

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