On Sunday 15 April 2007 10:55, Mike McCallister wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> For some reason, Windoze has stopped booting on my system. I've had this
> machine for a couple years now, with WinXP sitting on a SATA physical drive
> and SUSE 10.0 - 10.2 on a separate IDE drive. I think the problem started
> when I got a portable USB drive that I had to turn off when rebooting (the
> BIOS would try to boot to it). I changed the BIOS so it would ignore the
> portable drive, boot to Grub (the IDE drive) first, then floppy, then CD.
...
> splash=silent showopts elevator=
^^^^^^^^^
I would remove above elevator entry unless you have purpose for it, but equal
sign after elevator expects one of [anticipatory|cfq|deadline|noop], so it
seems that it was entered by mistake (or bug).
See the old article
http://lwn.net/2000/1123/kernel.php3
section "Riding the elevator" where you can find how usefull is for the
desktop. If you have kernel source installed you can look in:
Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt
Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
> initrd /boot/initrd
> title Windows
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader (hd1,0) +1
title Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
>
> Device.map reads like this:
>
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd1) /dev/sda
> (hd0) /dev/hda
>
> The YaST partitioner recognizes /dev/hda as the Linux drive, and /dev/sda
> as the Windows drive, with /dev/sda1 as the WIndows partition (and BTW, the
> files on the Windows partition are readable in Linux, so I haven't lost
> anything!)
--
Regards, Rajko.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
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