Installing Multiple O/s's To Multiple Hdd's - Boot Problem

Hi all.

I am attempting to run multiple O/S's to dedicated multiple HDD's.

1). Open Suse 10.3 to 250GB Maxtor IDE.
2). Windows XP to 250GB Hitachi IDE.
3). Windows Vista to 400GB Western Digital SATA.

I currently have single core AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice) but I am hoping to upgrade to Dual Core AMD64x2 later today.

I successfully installed 10.3 yesterday & thought I'd done all right on boot settings, but I now cannot boot the Windoze drives.


Any suggestions?


Cheers

Hi all.

I am attempting to run multiple O/S's to dedicated multiple HDD's.

1). Open Suse 10.3 to 250GB Maxtor IDE.
2). Windows XP to 250GB Hitachi IDE.
3). Windows Vista to 400GB Western Digital SATA.

I currently have single core AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice) but I am hoping to upgrade to Dual Core AMD64x2 later today.

I successfully installed 10.3 yesterday & thought I'd done all right on boot settings, but I now cannot boot the Windoze drives.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
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were the other OSes already installed before you installed suse?

Ixuser.

Yes, Windoze were already installed, as well as 10.0 which I couldn't access the internet with (See previous thread). I was running all 3 ok & had no problems on the boot front. I clean installed 10.3 yesterday (re-formatting over 10.0 which didn't have anything on it since I couldn't access the internet) & now I cannot boot the Windoze drives.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

showing us the /boot/grub/menu.lst file may help some users in helping you out.

to open it go to a console, then type

kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst

copy all the text and paste it here. DO NOT EDIT IT YET.

run this command and paste the result: fdisk -l


also post your grub.

Stig & Ixuser.

fdisk-1 response:-


###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.17-0.1
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6B250R0_B60PELXH-part2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
title windows 1
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title windows 2
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader (hd2,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader (fd0)+1


ist response:-

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun May 4 11:48:40 BST 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.17-0.1
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6B250R0_B60PELXH-part2 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sdb1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.17-0.1
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6B250R0_B60PELXH-part2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
title windows 1
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title windows 2
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader (hd2,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader (fd0)+1

Hope this helps.


Cheers

where is the fdisk -l result?

Ixuser.

fdisk-l result:-


Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbac2bac2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 30400 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd3ddfb75

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 132 30515 244059480 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
14 heads, 12 sectors/track, 4651326 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 168 * 512 = 86016 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7ccb7082

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 13 4651301 390708224 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdd: 1030 MB, 1030750208 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3932 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf9f8f9f8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 3932 1006576 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)


Hope this is the right one


Cheers

Ixuser.

fdisk-l result:-
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbac2bac2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 30400 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd3ddfb75

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 132 30515 244059480 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
14 heads, 12 sectors/track, 4651326 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 168 * 512 = 86016 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7ccb7082

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 13 4651301 390708224 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdd: 1030 MB, 1030750208 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3932 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf9f8f9f8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 3932 1006576 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
Hope this is the right one
Cheers
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ok, now that we have this -- can you do do this, for example
sda1 --windows xp
sdb1 --widows vista
basically just list what OS correspond to what device

if the order of installation was
1) XP
2) Vista
3) suse

then probably you have overwritten vista boot manager you need to restore it

the way I installed windws + linux was always (if using grub as boot manager)
linux on first disk

edit grub add map to make windows believe that nothing changed (disk order) and windows (xp or vista) boot manager is still on disk 1

for vista on second disk it could be something like
title Vista
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

maybe this will help