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 On Monday 25 July 2005 03:39, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everybody, > > You may recall my tussle with an Sempron/Asus K8N-e > box: first it wouldn't boot but I fixed that and then > the entire unit died. > > The tech at Asus suggested I *reverse* the CMOS > battery for a few seconds. I was skeptical but it > seems to have done the trick. > > However LBA remains 'off' for my Maxtor120G HD in the > POST even though it's listed as LBA-capable in the > BIOS and LBA is also set to 'auto' in the BIOS. > > Also gentoo boots but not WinXP. > > To recap: I moved all my boot stuff to a 200M HD, > mounted as Pri-Master. The Maxtor 120G(Pri-Slave) was > split nearly in two with WinXP on the first half, > gentoo on the 2nd. > > When I try to boot WinXP I get: > > rootnoverify (hd1,0)#2nd drive,first partition,right? > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > then the cursor advances a couple of lines and just > sits there blinking. > > Does WinXP absolutely have to be the first partition > on the first drive? What if I made the 200M the slave > and re-did grub, could I still boot from it. > > -mw > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
