Hi,
I’m having difficulty getting a dual-boot system (suse and xp) working. I’ve been trying for a while and am pretty stumped on what to try next. The only complicating factor I can think is that the machine is running two hd in RAID1 - its my first time running a machine with this hd configuration so maybe I’m missing something.
Anyway, here is the output from fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10 80293+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 11 7160 57432375 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7161 19451 98727457+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 7161 7169 72261 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7170 7431 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 7432 19441 96470293+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 10 80293+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sdb2 * 11 7160 57432375 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3 7161 19451 98727457+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 7161 7169 72261 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 7170 7431 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7 7432 19441 96470293+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/dm-0: 159.9 GB, 159996968960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19451 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/dm-0p1 1 10 80293+ de Dell Utility
/dev/dm-0p2 * 11 7160 57432375 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/dm-0p3 7161 19451 98727457+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/dm-0p5 7161 7169 72261 83 Linux
/dev/dm-0p6 7170 7431 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/dm-0p7 7432 19441 96470293+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/dm-1: 82 MB, 82220544 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8a42b4c3
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/dm-1p1 1880 111816 883058677+ cd Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-1p2 ? 33873 138704 842053558 72 Unknown
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-1p3 ? 69058 69060 10020+ 45 Unknown
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Disk /dev/dm-2: 58.8 GB, 58810752000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7150 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69205244
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/dm-2p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-2p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-2p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-2p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
omitting empty partition (6)
Disk /dev/dm-3: 101.0 GB, 101096916480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12291 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/dm-3p1 1 9 72261 83 Linux
/dev/dm-3p2 10 271 2104515 5 Extended
/dev/dm-3p5 10 271 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/dm-4: 73 MB, 73995264 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-5: 2154 MB, 2154991104 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-5 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-6: 98.7 GB, 98785580544 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12009 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-6 doesn't contain a valid partition table
sda and sdb are the two RAID1 drives, the /dev/dm-? entries I’m assuming are to do with the RAID controller.
Here is my menu.lst:
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Jul 8 09:51:45 BST 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/message
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.18-0.2 (default)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.18-0.2-default root=/dev/mapper/isw_gjjbdejdf_ARRAY_part7 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/mapper/isw_gjjbdejdf_ARRAY_part6 splash=silent showopts
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.18-0.2-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.18-0.2 (default)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.18-0.2-default root=/dev/mapper/isw_gjjbdejdf_ARRAY_part7 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.18-0.2-default
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader (hd0,1)+1
I edited the rootnoverify line from hd0,4 which YaST gave to hd0,1 by hand but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. When I select ‘Windows’ in the GRUB menu at boot I get:
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader (hd0,1)+1
printed to the screen and then it hangs indefinitely.
I other point: I can boot into the XP partition by running it as a VM (I’m using VirtualBox) from within Suse and there it seems to run fine.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I could try next?