Bug 439212

Summary: GRUB does not boot Windows Vista
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Francisco Meneu <francisco.meneu>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Blocker    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jreidinger
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Windows Vista   
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Description Francisco Meneu 2008-10-27 15:37:01 UTC
I have a Dell Laptop with 2 internal hard drives. I have the next partitions:

HD 1:
/dev/sda1  --> Dell Utility
/dev/sda2  --> RECOVERY
/dev/sda3  --> Windows Vista

HD 2:
/dev/sdb5  --> NTFS partition
/dev/sdb5  --> Linux Swap
/dev/sdb6  --> Open Suse 11.0

When I install Open Suse, the menu.lst created is wrong, in the "rootnoverify" parameter in the "windows 2" option should be "(hd0,2)" and not "(hd1,5)". All the "rootnoverify" are incorrect. The Yast also overrides this parameter incorrectly.

This is the incorrect menu.lst generated by Open Suse 11.0:

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.5-1.1
    root (hd1,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST9160821AS_5MA81X98-part6 resume=/dev/sdb5 splash=silent showoptsvga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.5-1.1
    root (hd1,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST9160821AS_5MA81X98-part6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off x11failsafe vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
title windows 1
    rootnoverify (hd1,5)
    chainloader (hd0,1)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title windows 2
    rootnoverify (hd1,5)
    chainloader (hd0,2)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 3###
title windows 3
    rootnoverify (hd1,5)
    chainloader (hd1,0)+1:
Comment 1 Francisco Meneu 2008-10-27 15:38:31 UTC
So, Windows Vista cannot be loaded.
Comment 2 Josef Reidinger 2008-10-29 08:00:48 UTC
yes, it is now fixed in 11.1 test release, if you can reproduce it on current beta, please reopen.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 394319 ***