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had same problem, solved rebuilding mbr |
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check fdisk, if same problem (16 heads instead of 255 heads) this will help |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40lists.gentoo.org/msg07969.html |
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On Monday 25 July 2005 03:39, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hello everybody, |
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> You may recall my tussle with an Sempron/Asus K8N-e |
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> box: first it wouldn't boot but I fixed that and then |
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> the entire unit died. |
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> The tech at Asus suggested I *reverse* the CMOS |
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> battery for a few seconds. I was skeptical but it |
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> seems to have done the trick. |
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> However LBA remains 'off' for my Maxtor120G HD in the |
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> POST even though it's listed as LBA-capable in the |
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> BIOS and LBA is also set to 'auto' in the BIOS. |
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> Also gentoo boots but not WinXP. |
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> To recap: I moved all my boot stuff to a 200M HD, |
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> mounted as Pri-Master. The Maxtor 120G(Pri-Slave) was |
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> split nearly in two with WinXP on the first half, |
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> gentoo on the 2nd. |
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> When I try to boot WinXP I get: |
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> rootnoverify (hd1,0)#2nd drive,first partition,right? |
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> makeactive |
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> chainloader +1 |
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> then the cursor advances a couple of lines and just |
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> sits there blinking. |
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> Does WinXP absolutely have to be the first partition |
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> on the first drive? What if I made the 200M the slave |
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> and re-did grub, could I still boot from it. |
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> -mw |
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