Another grub installation guide needed!

[oceanb70]

Hi guys, i been searching for age for this. I search hrough and found alot of similiar problem but none of them i understand. sorry for being a noob.

I got winXP on my second harddisk. Currently after trying so many distro. I finally settle down with suse 9.1. Install with no problem at all. But now, my current problem is i don't know how to configure grub using Yast2. I search through this problem and found out that alot of people got this problem solve by the following command:
title Windows
root (hd1,0)
map(hd1)(hd0)
map(hd0)(hd1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I got the command but using Yast, i don' t know how to set as Yast use GUI. I cannot find any website that show screen shot of step by step by yast. Even Yast website also only showing the command line. And the problem is that i don 't know how to go to the command line of yast. Any kind soul here can teach how to do that? what should i put for the type? and in yast. it can only use 'map' once, it will show me a message when i try to type another 'map'.

Please advice

[madcompnerd]

You're a newb to english as well it seems.

Yast has no command line (although if you run it in a shell you'll see a ncurses ui).
Those commands are, I think, to be run inside grub. If I remember correctly, you get to grub's cli by hitting the e key when grub is at it's menu.

That, or they just want you to put that in your /etc/grub.conf.

[oceanb70]

hahaa... sorry for my home make english. Before i do anything, I just wanna check. I got 2 + 1 hdd. 2 IDE Hdd doing Raid0 another sata hdd which contain two partition(one of it contian Linux). My winXp installed in Raid0 Hdd which is NTFS.

When i manage to boot up with suse. it detected my sata hdd second partition which is also NTFS. It didn't show my Raid0 hdd. so is it possible for me to boot up my XP using Grub?

[Parcival]

Originally posted by madcompnerd
That, or they just want you to put that in your /etc/grub.conf.

Well, the problem is since SuSE 9.1, YaST doesn't like it anymore when you manually change something. On a SuSE 9.1 system the changes need to be made using YaST.

I don't have a SuSE system right here, but there should be an icon in YaST where you can edit your bootloader. Click the icon and add a new entry in the new window that opens. In your new entry you can insert the information similarly to the one you gave in your first post; just make sure the paths are correct. If everything's being done right you should be able to boot Windows without any problem.

[oceanb70]

Originally posted by Parcival
Well, the problem is since SuSE 9.1, YaST doesn't like it anymore when you manually change something. On a SuSE 9.1 system the changes need to be made using YaST.

I don't have a SuSE system right here, but there should be an icon in YaST where you can edit your bootloader. Click the icon and add a new entry in the new window that opens. In your new entry you can insert the information similarly to the one you gave in your first post; just make sure the paths are correct. If everything's being done right you should be able to boot Windows without any problem.

Hmm. thanks but now the problem is i believe that Yast is not reading my Raid0 HDD. that's why it never auto configure during installation. I got another system which i just installed suse9.1 too. This system only got IDE Hdd. it auto detect my windowXP partition without any problem.

[Parcival]

Hmm, I see. During this week's LUG meeting we had a guy who has the same problem as you (i.e. Raid Disk not being recognized), but he has the problem with a Debian installation, so I guess what you experience is not SuSE specific.

I'm sorry man, but I have never laid my fingers on a Raid disk, so I can't help you there. Unless somebody else in this forum knows the answer, I guess Google is your best friend.

[oceanb70]

Originally posted by Parcival
Hmm, I see. During this week's LUG meeting we had a guy who has the same problem as you (i.e. Raid Disk not being recognized), but he has the problem with a Debian installation, so I guess what you experience is not SuSE specific.

I'm sorry man, but I have never laid my fingers on a Raid disk, so I can't help you there. Unless somebody else in this forum knows the answer, I guess Google is your best friend.

ya, i always do try googling before coming to forums. either my searching keyword is not right or i always not that lucky enough to found simliar problem. haha, that's y i end up here.