[wplug] Trouble Getting Dual Boot to Work

[Greg Simkins]

Hi, Can anybody help me figure out this install problem?  I want to set up
Grub to Dual Boot Windows and Suse Linux.  

 

I got a hold of an excessed Dell OptiPlex GS110, Pentium 933 MHz, 128 MB
Ram, 4 GB Maxtor Drive with Windows XP installed.  

 

I added at 60GB Maxtor Drive as drive 0 and moved the original XP drive to
drive 1.  I used cable select jumper positions on both drives.  Then I
installed Suse Linux 9.2 on the new primary drive.  

 

The Suse install went reasonable well.  When the install was finished, it
initially failed to boot to X and the level it did boot to didn't work.  I
couldn't even issue a shutdown command.  But when I powered down and
restarted, Suse worked fine.  Grub shows Suse as default and it recognized
that I have a windows drive and it offered windows as a selection - but when
I select Windows, it won't boot.  I get this error:  21 : Selected disk does
not exist

A google search give this further explanation:This error is returned if the
device part of a device- or full file name refers to a disk or BIOS device
that is not present or not recognized by the BIOS in the system.

 

I went into BIOS and I see that drive 1 is "OFF".  I can't select an "ON"
option - only unknown.  When I selected unknown and tried to boot to windows
from Grub, I get this error:

root (hd1,0)

File System type unknown, partition type 0x7

chainloader +1

 

If I power down and put the primary drive cable connection back to the
original drive, Windows boots with no problem.  None of the connector pins
are bent over.  

 

Is this a cable problem?  Should I jumper the Windows drive as slave?  Any
ideas?  

 

 

Greg Simkins

Pittsburgh, PA

Phone:  412-341-7926

FAX:  412-341-0790

Mobile:  412-478-2892

 

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