Bug 439212 - GRUB does not boot Windows Vista
Summary: GRUB does not boot Windows Vista
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 394319
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: x86-64 Windows Vista
: P5 - None : Blocker (vote)
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Assignee: Jozef Uhliarik
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2008-10-27 15:37 UTC by Francisco Meneu
Modified: 2008-10-29 08:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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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 ***