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 > > > hmm, yes it *is* 16 heads. But before I try this thing > can you recall trying to boot WinXP after running > (win95)fdisk /mbr? In my case the boot.ini file on the > c:\ drive actually opens giving me a choice of WinXP > and the Recovery Console but clicking one or the other > just leads to a blank screen. Seems if I can reach > boot.ini all should be OK windows-wise. > > -mw >
there were no succesful winxp boot, because bios didnt enable LBA seting. i dont think (win95)fdisk wil work with linux partitions. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
