Re: Gentoo and WinXP

Ah, I did not know that about the reply button, thanks for telling me :)

That being said, that sounds like what may have happened.  I guess I'll 
have to wait until I try again to find out for sure.

Brian

Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:

>Hi Brian,
>
>I think it's more appropriate to reply to the mailing list, instead of
>replying personally.  If you hit the reply button, you reply to the sender
>only...  You have to 'reply to all', and delete the personal address.
>
>As for changing your TOC, I believe it is possible that adding extended
>partitions may cause the partitions to be renumbered, as might creating a
>new partition in freespace that is not at the end.   Perhaps the fdisk of XP
>is not very considerate.  If that is so, you will need to figure out how
>they are changed, and adjust the grub menu.lst and reinstall grub.  Also the
>kernel boot options and your /etc/fstab may need adjustment.
>
>Gwendolyn.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Koppe [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: donderdag 3 oktober 2002 18:51
>To: Gwendolyn van der Linden
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] Gentoo and WinXP
>
>
>Unfortunately, I can't tell you the specific error - this was a couple
>weeks ago, and since I need this computer for school I formatted
>everything and installed Mandrake again, at least until I have a weekend
>free to try installing Gentoo again.  I'm getting the feeling maybe this
>was just a fluke.  I can tell you that from what I remember, what it
>seemed like happened was XP not only screwed up the MBR, which I
>expected, but it also screwed up the TOC - which is what surprised me.
> It seemed as if Gentoo simply couldn't find anything and didn't know
>where to look to boot.  But, if no one has ever heard of XP screwing up
>the TOC then maybe it was just something weird going on.  And, yes, I
>know I normally install XP first - I was just so excited about Gentoo I
>wanted to get it installed ASAP :-D
>
>Thanks
>Brian
>
>
>
>  
>


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