Martins Steinbergs wrote: >Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes >16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/hda1 * 1 47080 23728288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS >Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. >/dev/hda2 47096 59575 6289447+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) >Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. >/dev/hda5 47096 59575 6289416 7 HPFS/NTFS > > >
Holly covered all of the major points...I just want to add that these messages may or may not be a problem. They indicate that the windows disk was originally partitioned in 'LBA' mode, which always pretends to have 255 heads. If your BIOS is disabling LBA mode on the primary master disk, then it is possible that the windows boot loader is not able to find some block-mapped files that it needs (ntldr being the critical one). But that error would come after the point where you are currently stuck, so I don't think this is the problem currently. However, you may want to double check the BIOS settings for the PM disk and make sure that LBA is enabled. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
