Windows XP will not load after Suse installation

[kfranc9]

Hey all..my Suse will not load after Suse install. I completely wiped my disk, installed windows xp, installed suse...and unfortunately i get this error when grub tries to boot windows:

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
chainloader +1

what do i do?

 

[wseyller]

if you install linux before installing windows you should eliminate the problem.

 

[yelo333]

Could it be possible you were hit by the MBR "bug"?

Solution if it is the case:

http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/

You might not need to reinstall anything, just follow the recovery step. Booting to any rescue-type linux would be fine.

 

[drag]

When you boot up Suse check out your grub configuration and make sure that it is correct. It should be /boot/grub/grub.conf

If XP is on the first partition of the first harddrive then it should look something like this:

title (windows)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1


or something like that. There are a few howtos on the web, but often they make it a bit to complecated because they want to do special stuff like installing windows after Linux and tricking windows into not touching the MBR. That sort of thing.

So the best thing I can think off is telling us your exact harddrive and partition setup and posting your grub.conf (or lilo.conf if your using that) here and we'll see if we can spot anything that's wrong.

 

[kfranc9]

One suggestion by SUSE is to enable LBA in the BIOS. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/...ows_not_booting91.html]The help file is here[/URL]

My current motherboard is the MSI K8N Neo Platinum with an AMD64 3400+ chipset. I do not see any options about enabling LBA in my BIOS.

I have tried two different ways:
1) Install Windows (leave unpartitioned space for linux)
2) Install Linux in unpartitioned space
3) and GRUB in the MBR

AND

1) Install Windows
2) Use partition magic to move the windows partition over so there is 75 MB of space for GRUB at the beginning of the hard disk
3) Install Linux after Windows Patition
4) Install GRUB in PBR (first boot sector) of /boot partition (located at the beginning of HDD)