Looks like I need help again. I got tired of all the errors trying to install the dang XP SP3 patch so I decided to install XP fresh (the install is about 3 years old and could use a rebuild), figuring I could use my Suse install and rebuild the XP system at my leisure. Well, I installed XP and it would only boot to XP, so I repaired the boot using my Suse disk and now it will only boot to Suse. How can I get it back to where Suse sees the XP partition? Thanks for any help.
in suse login
go to file manager super user mode
go to /boot/grub
look for menu.lst.old
right click open with kwrite
it SHOULD contain a section for windows boot
copy it - and paste to your current: menu.lst
you might want to just compare the two to see how they differ.
If that doesn’t solve it
post your menu.lst here and maybe include /etc/fstab
Another option is to got Yast → system → bootloader → other → propose new configuration → wait, wait → bootloader installation → boot from master boot record → finish.
That should put the windows bit back into menu.lst.
This is what the old file has to say, I am afraid it is not what I had before:
Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Jul 19 12:35:22 MST 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,6)/boot/message
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.0
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM99574877-part7 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe – openSUSE 11.0
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM99574877-part7 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off x11failsafe
initrd /boot/initrd
It looks like it is just Suse & failsafe. My current menu.lst is:
Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Jul 19 12:36:05 MST 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,6)/boot/message
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.0
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM99574877-part7 resume=/dev/sdb6 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe – openSUSE 11.0
root (hd1,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM99574877-part7 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off x11failsafe
initrd /boot/initrd
My /etc/fstab is:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM99574877-part6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM99574877-part7 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM99574877-part8 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM98932240-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM98932240-part5 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-00L_WD-WMAM99574877-part5 /windows/F ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
Thanks for any help.
Thanks Swerdna, you saved my bacon again. All looks well on my rig again.
Another year or 2 of me messing things up and maybe I will get the hang of what is going on.