Ok, I've been through most of the posts in this forum about this, otherwise I wouldn't be posting a fresh one...but I'm still having problems.

Basically, new to Linux, installed SuSE 9.1 and now I'm getting the famed
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root (hd0,0)
FS is FAT Partition type is OxC
NTLDR is missing
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thing going on and I get the general impression I need to mess around with my Grub.conf and probably my boot.ini to sort it out. Just got a 40gb HD with 3 Partitions, Windows XP (FAT 32), Linux Swap and Linux


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"fdisk -l" is as follows :-
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Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 60440 30461728+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 60443 62523 1048824 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 62524 79656 8635032 83 Linux
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my grub.conf is as follows :-
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root (hd0,2)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,2)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit
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I'd rather try and get my Windows partition going again without having to wipe anything is possible so any help anyone could drop by would be appreciated more than you know

So, to reinstall winXP bootloader, boot the machine with xp's cd. Choose repair (instead of install) > recovery console. It will ask for the admin password. Log into the xp installation. There's a small utility called something like fixboot or fixmbr. Just run, it will create a new mbr and you will be able to boot xp again.

Won't that kill Grub and stop me booting into Linux though? I just want to be able to Select Windows from the Grub menu and have it boot that way

Oh! Sure it will, friend! I'm sorry. I misunderstood your problem. I thought you wanted to remove suse and let win be alone. Don't do that!

Can you post your menu.1st here for us?

Sure, sorry it took a minute, still finding my way around

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# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Jun 2 17:57:34 2004


color white/blue black/light-gray
default 1
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message

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title Linux
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hda2 showopts
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd
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Oh, and for good measure, here is my windows boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Try this:

make a copy of the master boot reccord:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/linux.mbr bs=512 count=1

copy linux.mbr to a floppy disk

repair windows xp

once in win xp, copy the linux.mbr file to your c: drive

edit c:\boot.ini and add a new line using linux.mbr as a ref to linux, under the [operating systems] header:

c:\linux.mbr="Linux"

Now when u boot it will go staright to the NT bootloader where u can select, or you can make linux the default, by adding the following to the [boot loader] section:

default=c:\linux.mbr

Hmmm.. its been a while I don't dualboot... But people here have been trying with the options "rootnoverify" and "makeactive". Did you try these?
A search in this forum will point you to several chainloader and ntldr threads.