Hi Saifi, Even I faced the same problem in my system which has 80 GB HDD
First Partition is 50Gb(WinXP) Second is 1GB Swap Third Partition is 25 Gb(Fedora Core2) After the installation both the operating systems worked fine but once when I logged into Fedora Core2, it said there are many programs to be installed onto the system...with an icon in the taskbar of the update manager.When I clicked install then Some got installed & took very longtime to install.And when I restarted the system next time it gave me the boot loader problem by giving some message on the screen like which you mentioned rootnoverify(hd0,0) chainloader +1... Then afterwards I was left no where but to format the system.Even that was not successful.Finally I formatted my system with Zerofill & installed again both operating systems which worked fine this time. Thanks, Pavan On 2/9/07, Saifi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi: > > Here is a strange scenario that is currently faced with a friend of mine > whom I helped migrate to OpenSuSe Linux sometime back. > > The system has a 80Gb SATA HDD. > > The first partition is 20GB (WinXP) > The second partition is 2GB swap (for Linux) > The third partition is 55GB linux (ext3). > > WinXP was working fine after OpenSuSe 10.2 was installed. > He applied the online update for OpenSuse from one of the repositories for > multimedia. > He says that the update took rather long and many rpms were installed. > Thats fine ! > > Now, on selecting the WinXP label from GRUB prompt, > the system momentarily shifts to blanks screen and presents the prompt > again. > > Even typing the following command on the boot prompt hasn't helped > grub> rootnoverify(hd0,0) > grub> chainloader +1 > grub> boot > > Has anybody faced this situation ? > If yes, please share the solution or the workaround ! > > Thanks in advance. > > thanks > Saifi. > > TWINCLING Society > http://www.twincling.org/
