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