Quoting Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [travails:]
> * In BIOS, try setting the IDE list to autodetect. > > In other words, "play with it". Also spelled "ATA is underengineered". > * If I want to back off on this, I can revert to WinXP only by booting a > DOS disk and doing "fdisk /MBR". I assume this works even for WinXP > (meaning that WinXP uses the same zeroth stage bootloader that Win95 > did). (AKA MS-DOS 7.0 with a Windows 4.0 shell). Which in turn is the same as the MBR bootloader of many preceding MS-DOS versions. Yes. This does seem to be the case. And here's an open-source functional equivalent, by the way: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ms-sys/ It's installable into the MBR 446-byte boot area in sector zero from Linux. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech