Hi group, Previously I had a problem with hard drive that turned out was a faulty IDE controller, not the drive, not the cable.
Now I can't use /dev/hdb but /dev/hdc is OK. So my set up is /dev/hda(WinXP) and /dev/hdc(gentoo), ie, WinXP is on the first IDE as master and gentoo is on the sec IDE also as master. hdd is the CDROM(sec IDE,slave), to complete the setup. So far I've tried every possible permutation of root, rootnoverify and map. I've tried installing the boot loader on /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. On hda nothing works(error 21). On hdc the boot menu appears and I can boot gentoo but not WinXP Error messages: "selected disk does not exist", "not found or not a block device", "could not find device for boot". Sorry, I can't recall the exact context for these messages but this will give a flavor hopefully. I've tried changing the boot order in the BIOS. I can get gentoo to boot if I tell grub it's on (hd0,0)(?!?!) but WinXP won't boot unless I remove the HD w/gentoo on it and bypass grub altogether. fdisk can see both drives OK. Both drives appear in dmesg w/o errors. Both drives appear in the POST screen -- first drive as '0', second drive as '1' I've scoured the web for an answer and now must turn to the authorities on this list as a last resort. Maxim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
