On Sunday 15 April 2007 11:50, Rajko M. wrote: > 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!)
Thanks, Rajko. Progress made, but no resolution yet. I added the suggested lines to the Windows entry of menu.lst and rebooted. When I selected Windows from the Grub graphical menu, a second, non-graphical Grub menu appeared. I selected Windows again and nothing happened. Selected openSUSE and booted normally. Are there really two map lines, or should I try one, then the other? Mike -- Mike McCallister ProTek Writing Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Translation from the Geek a specialty" Notes from the Metaverse: http://metaverse.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
