From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx4Xa-0007ke-C0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:06:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6PF4xOZ004466; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:04:59 GMT Received: from smtp2.delfi.lv (smtp2.delfi.lv [195.2.96.244]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6PF1ONx022918 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:01:24 GMT Received: from suzukiton.ml.lv ([62.85.19.80]) by smtp2.delfi.lv (8.12.11/8.12.9/8.8.0) with ESMTP id j6PF2NeF069301 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:02:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from mar@ml.lv) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20050725174720.01c09c48@pop.ml.lv> X-Sender: mar@pop.ml.lv X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:02:36 +0300 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Martins Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack! In-Reply-To: <42E48A5C.6020909@asmallpond.org> References: <20050725054256.65778.qmail@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200507250928.50351.mar@ml.lv> <42E48A5C.6020909@asmallpond.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 X-Archives-Salt: 8fc3b1c0-7e75-425b-8fc2-c50957ef1f92 X-Archives-Hash: cb38411befb14bc1fb2ef1583ecfd2b9 > >Um, if you do this, you will more than likely destroy the filesystems as >well, because the new partitions will not line up exactly with the old ones. > >Anyway I don't think this is the problem. Afterall, WinXP booted fine >before on this drive with LBA disabled, so something else is up. If you >already made the right changes to the boot.ini file, then I suspect that a >"fixboot" from the recovery mode of the WinXP CD will be necessary. >This should not overwrite the MBR, only the boot loader that is at the >beginning of the windows partition. > >-Richard > >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list there is no worry, writing new partition table give it the same values (partition start, end, type, order) as before and not a single bit is lost this is kind of fedora installer bug, since i have amd64 box i was moving from mandrake to some more amd64 distro at that point, and befor gentoo i checked fedora. and problems started when i upgraded bios. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list