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    suse 9.1 pro and winxp pro grub boot up problems

    hi everyone,

    i have just been doing my collage work and i have only just noticed that i have to do the homework in a windows operating system, luckley i have a windows xp pro disk with service pack 2 from my laptop,

    i have two hard drives, i have a 80gb with suse 9.1 pro (master, with a ext2 partition i think)),
    and i have a second harddrive 60gb with a fresh install of win xp pro (slave, with a ntfs partition and a fat32 partition (ntfs is the primary partition with the windows os on it, the fat32 is just my documents, films and mpes and stuff)).

    here is my problem, i can boot windows only when i unplug the linux harddrive but when both harddrives are in, grub loads but i can only boot up linux, when i select the windows option in grub i get this message on a black screen:

    root (hd1,0)
    Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
    chainloader +1

    and just them words is all i get, no boot up into windows just that message above, but windows will booyup when i unplug the linux hard drive, so im left a bit confused.

    can anybody please help me?

    thanks in advance ----- Xlilo -----
    Last edited by xlilo; 11-14-2004 at 10:10 PM.
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    i have just reinstalled linux and i still have the same problem, anybody got any ideas?
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    GRUB

    I have a similar setup with my computer at home. Here is how I set it up....

    I have two hard drives in my computer. 60gb (linux) and 40gb (for windows)...

    I unplugged the 60, and put the 40 as master. Installed windows on it just like you would normally.

    Unplug the 40, plug in the linux drive. and install linux as normal, no multiboot.

    Plug in the windows drive as secondary, and the linux drive as master.

    Boot up and edit your linux grub bootloader so that it knows windows is on the secondary drive. I thinik you are doing this properly, but you might just be missing these lines for the windows entry....

    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)

    These lines makes windows think it is the primary drive, and then it can properly boot. I'm at work right now, so I can't send you my exact config, but I think it's something like this....

    title Windows XP
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    chainloader +1
    makeactive


    So basically, this type of configuration works great when you have a dedicated hard drive for each operating system. You just install the operating systems as normal, so that their boot loaders reside on the first sector or partition of the drive they are on. Then you add the windows boot loader location to the grub boot loader with just a few lines of code....

    I hope this is not too confusing... i'm not that great at explaining things. Just make sure not to hack into the mainframe and crash override the bios!

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    resource

    forgot to give you this link, check it out...

    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...04/02/3/132552
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    thanks mate, i will try this when i get home from collage, its not to confusing i think i understand what to do, i just edit the grub config or i could even do it through yast,
    thanks again
    xlilo.
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    Homebuilt Computer:
    AMD Athlon XP 2800+
    200GB SATA Hard Drive (80GB & 120GB)
    Nvidia G-Force FX 5200 dual moniter
    Nvidia N-Force 2 chipset mb
    768 MB DDR Ram
    DVD-RW 16x
    CD-RW 54x
    CD-Rom
    With suse 9.2 Pro

    Omnibook 900 laptop with XP Pro and Suse 9.2 Pro

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    it worked!!!!
    thanks mate, its all working perfect together,
    thanks again.
    xlilo.
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    Homebuilt Computer:
    AMD Athlon XP 2800+
    200GB SATA Hard Drive (80GB & 120GB)
    Nvidia G-Force FX 5200 dual moniter
    Nvidia N-Force 2 chipset mb
    768 MB DDR Ram
    DVD-RW 16x
    CD-RW 54x
    CD-Rom
    With suse 9.2 Pro

    Omnibook 900 laptop with XP Pro and Suse 9.2 Pro

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