AW: [ltp] [T42] can't reboot on windows after installing gentoo

Meidinger Chris linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:11:08 +0100


>Hello every bodies.
>First of all,  sorry for my english i'm a french guy who is in 
>strungle with shakespear 's language !
>Well i have an issue after installing a gentoo. I can't reboot 
>on windows. I have installed grub and when i select this item 
>grub saids "error 12". I read a lot of threads and now i know 
>there is an issue with kernel 2.6 and window about the hard 
>disk (one "see" directly the HD and the other trought the 
>BIOS, isn't it ?) When i did fdisk -l i have a lot of 
>Partition does not end on cylinder boundary.
>I ride this BIOS LBA Setting. If your BIOS contains a disk 
>geometry option, change it from Auto to LBA. This options is 
>not available on the laptop BIOS's I have seen.
>What can i will do ?

You can will post your grub.conf and the output of fdisk -l

Cheers, Chris