Dual boot SuSE / win2000 does not load windows

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Hi,

I have posted this before but had no answers and have made some progress since.

The system has two SATA drives, the first (/dev/sda) has a working SuSE 11.0. The second (/dev/sdb) has a working windows 2000, which was installed on it as a single disk in the system.

There is also an old PATA drive on IDE.

I tried to point GRUB to the windows partition on the second disk according to the excellent guide on swerdna.net. unfortunately, after putting the recommended following lines in menu.lst:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1

I now get, when choosing windows in GRUB:

rootnoverify(hd1,0)
chainloader(hd1,0)+1

Error 25: Disk read error

I know the second disk is readable and bootable, because when I choose it as a first boot disk in the bios it boots without a hitch into win2000.

Any ideas why I can’t boot into it from GRUB?

Thanks,

Abe

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Try changing the rootnoverify line to point to your openSUSE root partition instead. So if, for example, openSUSE is on sda1, then make it:

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1
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Thanks. I tired it and got the same error 25 as before.
If this is alright with you I would like to move this discussion to the other thread I started in this forum (the one that wasn’t answered initially and had some traffic this evening), so as to reduce the noise I create :slight_smile:

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Sure. Good idea.