a fixboot from the recovery mode of the WinXP CD
will be necessary.
This should not overwrite the MBR, only the boot
loader that is at the
beginning of the windows partition.
The problem was two-fold:
1. WinXP boot sector was bad(my best guess).
2. Recovery Console suffered from obscure
Martins wrote:
it is possible with fdisk, i did it and it worked, and this is steps i
followed, step 7 wasnt necesary for me:
More info about the bug can be found here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzill...g.cgi?id=115980
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzill...g.cgi?id=113201
Note that
maxim wexler wrote:
everything knocking on wood is cool!
Very cool indeednow you can do what we all got computers for in the
first place...to play solitaire. ;-)
-Richard
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log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads corect, write new
partition table -- reboot, LBA is on and win is booting. none of dos/win
apps worked for me to fix partition table.
i asume LBA is needed only for win itself, not vfat or ntfs partitions,
therefore files are accesible from
Martins Steinbergs wrote:
log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads corect, write new
partition table -- reboot, LBA is on and win is booting. none of dos/win
apps worked for me to fix partition table.
i asume LBA is needed only for win itself, not vfat or ntfs partitions,
Um, if you do this, you will more than likely destroy the filesystems as
well, because the new partitions will not line up exactly with the old ones.
Anyway I don't think this is the problem. Afterall, WinXP booted fine
before on this drive with LBA disabled, so something else is up. If
--- Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads
corect, write new
partition table -- reboot, LBA is on and win is
What does this mean? LBA was off before and now it's
on? Where? In the POST? dmesg? In the BIOS? fdisk? dos
or unix?
Also
Martins wrote:
Um, if you do this, you will more than likely destroy the filesystems
as well, because the new partitions will not line up exactly with the
old ones.
Anyway I don't think this is the problem. Afterall, WinXP booted
fine before on this drive with LBA disabled, so
it is possible with fdisk, i did it and it worked, and this is steps i
followed, step 7 wasnt necesary for me:
Fix for the XP dual boot problem
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* Subject: Fix for the XP
Richard Fish wrote:
Martins Steinbergs wrote:
log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads corect, write new
partition table -- reboot, LBA is on and win is booting. none of
dos/win apps worked for me to fix partition table.
i asume LBA is needed only for win itself, not vfat or
had same problem, solved rebuilding mbr
check fdisk, if same problem (16 heads instead of 255 heads) this will help
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40lists.gentoo.org/msg07969.html
On Monday 25 July 2005 03:39, maxim wexler wrote:
Hello everybody,
You may recall my tussle with an
--- Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
had same problem, solved rebuilding mbr
check fdisk, if same problem (16 heads instead of
255 heads) this will help
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40lists.gentoo.org/msg07969.html
hmm, yes it *is* 16 heads. But before I try this
On Monday 25 July 2005 07:35, maxim wexler wrote:
--- Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
had same problem, solved rebuilding mbr
check fdisk, if same problem (16 heads instead of
255 heads) this will help
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40lists.gentoo.org/msg07969.html
maxim wexler wrote:
--- Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
had same problem, solved rebuilding mbr
check fdisk, if same problem (16 heads instead of
255 heads) this will help
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40lists.gentoo.org/msg07969.html
hmm, yes it *is* 16
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
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