Hello everyone,
Good news Richard Fish, I followed the advice offered
in the current "Dell, Optiplex" thread and made a grub
boot floppy(Why didn't we try that before?).
Now I'm looking at a beautiful grub>_ prompt and
wondering what my next step should be.
It's weird, now the boot process gets past stage2
whereas before it would gag after stage1.5, even
though the various stages are all available under
/boot/grub.
As it happens, an attempt to update the BIOS on my
Asus K8N-E-deluxe using the utility included in the
mobo support CD, hosed my WinXP boot partition
somehow. I say "somehow" because although boot.ini is
still reachable the available options(WinXP and
Recovery Console) hang the system. a:\fdisk /mbr does
no good. Nevertheless, gentoo would still boot, at
first only by booting the CD, and now w/ a floppy. Can
a HD boot be far away?
-mw
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