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On Wednesday 14 November 2007, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Thanks for the suggestions, I tried them all, but none |
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> of them worked. |
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> Every attempt at tab completion results in: |
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> Possible disks are: fd0 fd1 fd2 fd3 fd4 fd5 fd6 fd7 |
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> hd0 |
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> hd1 just doesn't appear(don't know what all those |
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> floppies is about). Any attempt to use it, whether by |
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> tab completion or by just entering it at the prompt, |
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> results in Error 21: Selected disk does not exist. |
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Well, you could take turns trying out all these fds. |
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> I know the drive is OK cause it boots when the boot |
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> order in the BIOS starts with the first drive. |
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Grub *should* be able to see what BIOS sees, but clearly this is not the case |
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here. Have you tried reinstalling Grub in the MBR? |
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> I think I'll try that old hack where you dd the boot |
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> sector to a floppy and copy it to C:\ in Windows. Then |
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> you write a .bat file? Details kinda hazy... |
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You'll need to reinstall grub for this solution to work, but install it in |
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your Gentoo /boot partition, not the MBR. (I have not tried it with the MBR |
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image, but you could try that too - pls let me know if it works). Then you |
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dd this and copy it into your WinXP partition so that you can chainload it |
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from NTLDR. Finally, you'll have to edit the boot.ini file to point it to |
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the boot image you just copied in your WinXP partition and you should be able |
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to boot it . . . as long as NTLDR can see the drive in question. :p Well, |
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it's worth giving it a shot I guess. |
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Good luck. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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