Bug 103839

Summary: After installation, Windows dual boot not set up correctly in GRUB
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Ilkka Pirskanen <ilkka.pirskanen>
Component: YaST2Assignee: E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: 32bit   
OS: All   
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Found By: Beta-Customer Services Priority:
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Description Ilkka Pirskanen 2005-08-10 15:06:04 UTC
I have a single SATA hard drive. Before installation there was "sda1" Primary   
NTFS Partition and "sda2" Extended Partition containing NTFS logical drive  
"sda5". Installation suggested to create swap ("sda3") and / ("sda4"), and  
created them correctly. However, Windows dual-boot was not correctly set up.   
   
After the installation, partitions are correctly set up:   
/dev/sda  149.0GB 0-19456   
/dev/sda1  97.6GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/C 0-12747   
/dev/sda2  30.3GB Extended 12748-16707   
/dev/sda3  1.0GB Linux swap swap 16708-16838   
/dev/sda4  20.0GB Linux native / 16839-19456   
/dev/sda5  30.3GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/D 12748-16707   
   
However, GRUB settings are not correct for Windows dual-boot:   
   
/boot/grub/menu.lst   
...   
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###   
title Windows   
    chainloader (hd0,3)/dev/sda1   
...   
   
   
/boot/grub/device.map:   
(fd0)   /dev/fd0   
(hd0)   /dev/sda   
   
   
/etc/grub.conf   
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,3) (hd0,3)   
quit   
   
GRUB "Windows" menu choice produces:   
Booting "Windows"   
chainloader(hd0,3)/dev/sda1   
Error 2: Bad file or directory type   
Press any key to continue...   
   
I managed to boot to Windows with the following Windows section:   
chainloader (hd0,0)+1   
  
In addition, Windows tells that "Found new hardware..." whenever GRUB installs  
boot loader.  
   
I made exactly the same set-up previously with SUSE 9.3 Professional, and I   
didn't have any problems with GRUB.   
  
Kind regards  
  
Ilkka
Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-08-10 16:30:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102703 ***