[opensuse] Bootloader Problems Still

[charles]

I am still having problems with this for some reason(s). I actually 
installed Mandriva this morning, got the bootloader to install and was able 
to boot to it without having to use the DVD disc. I did have a little 
trouble, but it was simple to fix because the problem was obvious. It was 
pointing to a non-existant swap partition. I changed what people had 
suggested yesterday in the menu.ist file and even edited the grub.conf file, 
but no matter what I did, the error still came up and although I changed the 
device from sda,7 to something else, it would put it back. 

The only reference to anything about hd0,0 is on the line for booting into 
windows. it says: "rootnoverify (hd0,0)" and the entry below it says: 
"chainloader (hd0,0)+1" 

I'm at a loss here. I thought I understood what M Harris was telling me 
yesterday but I'm not sure anymore. :-( 

the drive itself is sda0 

It has a primary partition (sda1), then a extended partition with two 
logical partitions (NTFS) then the swap partition, the root partition and 
the home partition. 

The extended partition is sda2 which I understand is always the case with an 
extended partition. So the first (logical) partition would be sda5, the 
second logical partition would be sda6, the swap partition is sda7, the root 
partition is sda8 and the home partition is sda9. This is how Mandriva saw 
it as well. Now counting the partitions is what I think is confusing me. As 
far as the HD0,0) is concerned. Would it be like the following? sda1 = hd0,1 
or 0? How about the extended partition? would sda2 become hd0,1 or 2? and so 
forth? 

well, it's almost noon and I'm getting breakfast ready! :-O Hopefully 
someone can make sense of this. Many Thanks! 


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