On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:02 pm, maxim wexler wrote: > > What are the results of this operation for you? > > Specific messages please. > > YIPPEE! all is cool 8-) > > Nobody's suggestions worked. I tried every possible > combination of hdx with the same result: /boot or > /boot/boot or //boot (or some others I don't recall): > Not found or not a block device. > > So I just used lilo. I edited lilo.conf as if /dev/hdb > was my only drive and reduced the pause time to zero > secs. I did dd if=/dev/hdb1 bs=512 count=1 onto a > floppy as gentoo.bin, booted XP and copied it to C:\. > Then I edited my boot.ini adding the line > C:\gentoo.bin="Gentoo". Now XP boots and gives me a > choice. A simple click, and awaaaaaaay we go. > > Now lessee, how do I get rid of grub? > You can use: emerge -C grub to unmerge grub. Course I'd much prefer using Grub over Windows, or Lilo to boot my system.
-- Chris Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 01:17:33 up 3 days, 4:00, 11 users, load average: 0.06, 0.15, 0.23 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
