what did suse do to my system?!?!?!

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ok… it’s been a while since i have used linux, so i tried this one after a few recommendations…

i had windows xp on there… the forum told me to install on top of it and let the GRUB bootloader give me the option of booting to windows or suse, so i did…

now, install is complete… suse runs but what the frigg??? i can’t access any of my drives… it created like 8 partitions (i have two 250G hdd’s and only one was split into two partitions)… i can’t boot into windows – it sits at the loader screen with the commands to access the partition windows is on, but locks up and sits there!!!

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

gimme a break!!! i should have never tried this because now the crap is gone unless there is a way to access it!!! i am not terminal friendly, never really used the commands… always been gui…

any ideas??? t.i.a.

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Restore to windows boot:

At your own risk.

Put Vista disc in
Choose repair windows > command prompt.
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /fixmbr

If it doesn’t work change to the DVD drive. By typing D: (whatever the drive letter is) and try commands again.

XP:
FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:
bootcfg /rebuild

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Wait wait wait… Sorry - I think that’s too drastic a step at this stage. If you can boot SUSE, and your intention was to dual boot, you should probably work out whether both systems are there, and functional, before you bother trying to restore things (possibly destructively) to the way they were.

If you can get into SUSE, open a terminal, and copy and paste the output of;


su -
fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

Somebody may be able to fix things without having to resort to uninstalling.

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Change this:

title windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

to this:

title windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

Maybe need the makeactive in the changed one too, probably not, try without, then with.

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did that, i found it on another post and it did nothing… still hung up after the …+1 until i CTRL-ALT-DEL’d to reboot.

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here is the result of the fdisk …

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x54d254d2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 12938 103916452 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 12938 30401 140279549 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 12938 12946 72261 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 12947 13208 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 13209 15819 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 15820 30310 116398926 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1b28e24a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 12938 103916452 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 12938 30401 140279549 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 12938 12946 72261 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 12947 13208 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7 13209 15819 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 15820 30310 116398926 83 Linux

Disk /dev/dm-0: 250.0 GB, 250059349504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1b28e24a

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/dm-0p1 * 1 12938 103916452 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/dm-0p2 12938 30401 140279549 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/dm-0p5 12938 12946 72261 83 Linux
/dev/dm-0p6 12947 13208 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/dm-0p7 13209 15819 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/dm-0p8 15820 30310 116398926 83 Linux

Disk /dev/dm-1: 106.4 GB, 106410446848 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12936 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-1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/dm-1p4 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-2: 143.6 GB, 143646258176 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17463 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/dm-2p1 1 9 72261 83 Linux
/dev/dm-2p2 9 271 2104515 5 Extended
/dev/dm-2p5 10 271 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/dm-3: 73 MB, 73995264 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn’t contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-4: 2154 MB, 2154991104 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 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: 21.4 GB, 21476173824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 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: 119.1 GB, 119192500224 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14490 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-6 doesn’t contain a valid partition table

“/dev/dm-0p1 * 1 12938 103916452 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/dm-0p2 12938 30401 140279549 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)”

correct me if i am wrong but it appears that using (hd0,0) is wrong… should it be 0,1 or 0,2 instead???

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MORE INFO…

i am noticing on shutdown, that this
/dev/mapper/via_ebjfjbbhci_part1 ]
says it is inactive??? that is supposed to be my xp/ntsf partition and in yast partitioner it says this…

Mount Point: /windows/C
Mount By: Kernel

… that means it is mounted right?? so could it be that it is not mounted by GRUB, only mounted on boot up and then dismounted on shutdown!!! that makes no sense but it would explain why it doesn’t work!!!

HELP PLEASE?!?! :slight_smile:

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ok… no one seems to have any info for me on this!!!

i decided to try and revert back to my original setup with just xp on it… now the NTLDR is missing and cannot boot!!! gotta repair the mbr and see if that works…