| 1 |
Hello everybody, |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
You may recall my tussle with an Sempron/Asus K8N-e |
| 4 |
box: first it wouldn't boot but I fixed that and then |
| 5 |
the entire unit died. |
| 6 |
|
| 7 |
The tech at Asus suggested I *reverse* the CMOS |
| 8 |
battery for a few seconds. I was skeptical but it |
| 9 |
seems to have done the trick. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
However LBA remains 'off' for my Maxtor120G HD in the |
| 12 |
POST even though it's listed as LBA-capable in the |
| 13 |
BIOS and LBA is also set to 'auto' in the BIOS. |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
Also gentoo boots but not WinXP. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
To recap: I moved all my boot stuff to a 200M HD, |
| 18 |
mounted as Pri-Master. The Maxtor 120G(Pri-Slave) was |
| 19 |
split nearly in two with WinXP on the first half, |
| 20 |
gentoo on the 2nd. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
When I try to boot WinXP I get: |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
rootnoverify (hd1,0)#2nd drive,first partition,right? |
| 25 |
makeactive |
| 26 |
chainloader +1 |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
then the cursor advances a couple of lines and just |
| 29 |
sits there blinking. |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
Does WinXP absolutely have to be the first partition |
| 32 |
on the first drive? What if I made the 200M the slave |
| 33 |
and re-did grub, could I still boot from it. |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
-mw |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
|
| 38 |
|
| 39 |
____________________________________________________ |
| 40 |
Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page |
| 41 |
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs |
| 42 |
|
| 43 |
-- |
| 44 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
Archives