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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: HPC GUY on 27 January 2003, 00:23

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: HPC GUY on 27 January 2003, 00:23

Goddammit, i installed suse 8.1 on my xp system to dual boot and now i get an error

root (hd1,0)
Filesystem Unknown, partition type 0X7
makeactive
chainloader +1

so any ideas people? im sure its a simple fix but im not sure what needs to be changed in the boot loader. my Xp and suse partitions are on different hard drives

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 27 January 2003, 22:49

SuSE i think doesn't support NTFS...

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: HPC GUY on 28 January 2003, 00:28

actually it does, my work computer does xp and suse just fine.

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 28 January 2003, 03:18

Bummer...i cannot help you then. (http://smile.gif)

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: Pantso on 28 January 2003, 03:35

That's also a first. I've never had this problem myself on my second laptop BUT you should really go with the FAT32 filesystem when you dualboot. The reason is that Linux can read and write on FAT32 partitions, whereas this is simply not the case with NTFS ones. Tell me something, did you use YAST2 to shrink your NTFS partition?

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: Ice-9 on 28 January 2003, 03:48

Do you use Grub?
I think SuSE defaults to Grub from 8.1 on, isn't it?

If so I found a shitload of bug reports on Grub and NTFS by Googling on your error message.
Have a look here, you might find something interesting.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/ (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/)

[ January 27, 2003: Message edited by: Ice9 ]

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: Pantso on 28 January 2003, 03:54

Yep, 8.1 defaults to Grub fortunately for some, unfortunately for others.   (http://smile.gif)

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: HPC GUY on 28 January 2003, 07:11

thanks fro the help so far guys, i suse says that it uses yast as a boot loader

Title: Dual Booting Suse 8.1 and XP
Post by: Ice-9 on 28 January 2003, 10:55

Yast is not a bootloader, it stands for "yet another setup tool" and SuSE uses it for onine updates and stuf like that.
If you didn't specify LILO at install chances are you use Grub as a bootloader.