I have installed openSuse 11.4 and works perfectly. The main problem is, I have another system on my HD, Windows XP, and unable to boot to my XP system.
If I choose Windows on Grub menu, its just show me the same text as in the menu.lst at Windows’ section.
I am able to boot in Windows, by adding ‘makeactive’ but then, I unable to see the grub menu. And to boot to oS again, I must insert DVD installer and made an update. How tiring… -_____-
I just a little bit confused
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x78ac2597Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 61438985 30719461+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 61438986 271443878 105002446+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda3 271443968 274792447 1674240 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 * 274792448 312580095 18893824 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 61439056 118485869 28523407 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 163644586 257110685 46733050 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda7 257110749 271443878 7166565 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda8 118487040 163637247 22575104 83 LinuxPartition table entries are not in disk order
menu.lst
Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Apr 24 16:44:26 WIT 2011
THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 2
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,3)/boot/message
##YaST - activate###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.1-1.2
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.1-1.2-default root=/dev/sda4 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543216L9SA00_090703FB22015CDT4WUA-part3 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x361
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.1-1.2-default###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe – openSUSE 11.4 - 2.6.37.1-1.2
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.1-1.2-default root=/dev/sda4 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x361
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.37.1-1.2-defaultDon’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
my last edit : I changed (hd0,0) -> (hd0,1)
and I changed chainloader (hd0,0)+1 -> chainloader (hd0,1)+1
the result? The same.
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader (hd0,1)+1
These are modifications I made :
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
This make me boot to Windows, after display this text in the monitor
and I forced the system to restart by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del
title Windows
map(hd0,0) (hd0,0)
map(hd0,0) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
makeactive
Please help me. I am about going crazy about this. I am tired already to try and restarting my system so many times…
I appreciate any responses. Thank you.