Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >flagged w/ error #110. This, I'm told, can be fixed >using findpart.exe to list the partitions and then >ptedit.exe to fix them. But when I try I'm told these >are 32bit apps, not windows, but "new" DOS. But if I >boot to a DOS prompt using Win98, surely that's a >DOS32 enviro

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-06 Thread Antonino Sabetta
Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf Bug or feature? ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS-Windows.html#DOS%2fWindows > > title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > chainloader +1 > > Zac Doesn't work. The WinXP boot console opens alright but that's all. As I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-03 Thread Richard Fish
maxim wexler wrote: >Yee-hah! > >Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out >my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the >HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! > Congratulations. So I nominate you to be our local grub expert! Cheers , -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-03 Thread t . drueke
Oh, and here is the link to the thread I copied the lines from (just for completeness). http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/334378 BR Thomas > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > > >>Yee-hah! > >> > >>Finally, after about 6 weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-03 Thread t . drueke
Hi, googled a little bit around and found this one: title Windows XP Professionnal root (hd0,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 This one will map the second drive (/dev/hdb) to the first drive (/dev/hda) and vice versa. I'm not using grub but lilo so I can't confirm

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-02 Thread Zac Medico
Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > >>Yee-hah! >> >>Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out >>my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the >>HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig >>drive as /dev/hda for boot duty,

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
You might already know this and have thought a way around it, but in my experience (plus I've read this in several places) Microsoft Windows will refuse to boot up unless it is taking up /dev/hda1. It wants to be the first OS on the primary hard drive so that it can believe that it is the only one

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-02 Thread Zac Medico
Zac Medico wrote: > maxim wexler wrote: > >>Yee-hah! >> >>Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out >>my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the >>HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig >>drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a >>waste, but I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-02 Thread Zac Medico
maxim wexler wrote: > Yee-hah! > > Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out > my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the > HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig > drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a > waste, but I'm sure I can find something to

[gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-02 Thread maxim wexler
Yee-hah! Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all that extra space. Onl