GRUB Config Problem

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#1

This is yet another Windows/openSUSE dualboot problem thread. I’m about out of ideas, so need some outside assistance now.

I have a mobo running nVidia nForce 4 Ultra chipset, so have several SATA drives on NV RAID as JBOD. WinXP and openSUSE each have their own dedicated drive, and I can boot each by itself via BIOS boot-order swapping. GRUB is on the openSUSE drive MBR. my current GRUB config files are as follows:

device.map

(hd5)	/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_ehehddfb
(hd3)	/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD103SI_S1VSJ9CS617270
(fd0)	/dev/fd0
(hd1)	/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_efebaehb
(hd2)	/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD103SI_S1VSJ9CS617269
(hd4)	/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_cfdgaeea
(hd0)	/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_bhaecjif

grub.conf

setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd0,0)
quit

menu.lst

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Oct 26 17:32:35 PDT 2009
default 1
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Ec2 -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-ec2 root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_bhaecjif-part3 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_bhaecjif-part2 splash=silent showopts vga=0x348
    initrd /initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-ec2

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.7-9
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_bhaecjif-part3 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_bhaecjif-part2 splash=silent showopts vga=0x348
    initrd /initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.7-9
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/raid-nvidia_bhaecjif-part3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x348
    initrd /initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default

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

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

for the windows section, I have tried these settings:

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

title Windows XP #2
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

title Windows XP #3
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    makeactive
    chainloader (hd1,0)+1

title Windows XP #4
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    makeactive
    chainloader (hd0,0)+1

Which gave me the following upon boot:
#1, #4) Error 13
#2, #3) NTLDR is missing

Any suggestions are welcome.

#2

I think RAID support/repair and grub especially repair is buggy. Checkout the opensuse bugzilla reports on RAID.

I have tried nearly every suggest grub/boot fix and needed to do a reinstall (on more than one occasion) to get it to work. 11.2RC1 may be better.

#3

Thanks. I’ll go look–I had a feeling that might be part of the problem. I have an 11.2RC1 DVD ready, but with the problems I started encountering I decided it might be prudent to eliminate the possibility of it being a beta problem. Well, it’s not like installing takes long–and I’ve gotten really good at it recently. :\

I also had another thought after a night to sleep on it. Perhaps I could use the XP boot menu instead of GRUB. Doing some Googling on that now. I fear the multi-drive setup will complicate things there as well.