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> there were no succesful winxp boot, because bios |
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> didnt enable LBA seting. i |
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> dont think (win95)fdisk wil work with linux |
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> partitions. |
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Right, but booting a win95/98 CD and running fdisk |
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/mbr from the DOS prompt will usually restore a WinXP |
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boot sector. What's so bizarre in this case is that it |
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should only partially restore(so it seems) |
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bootability. Can you or anyone explain what this |
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16/255 controversy has to do with it? True, LBA is |
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'off', but WinXP starts at the beginning of /dev/hdb |
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and *doesn't* boot, whereas gentoo starts at the 60G |
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point and it *does* boot. Also FWIW all WinXP files |
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are readable from gentoo once it's up. |
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Even when I eliminate the first drive, the 200M drive |
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where grub resides, and install the 120G HD as |
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pri-master and try to boot, boot.ini opens up giving |
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me the choices of WinXP and Recovery Console as I said |
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before; only problem: neither goes anywhere, just |
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hangs. |
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-mw |
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