help me PLEASE!!!!!!!!

[Griswold]

yes, the floppy will work with and in xp pro, or at least it should. Once u make it, u do not have to mount it, simply make your bios boot from floppy once u have run that little program and u should be put into dos so u can type fdisk /mbr good luck.

[NeddySeagoon]

sinisterdomestik,

You are trying to read a CD-ROM filesystem from a floppy. You may well be able to do that on linux but its not very useful for most floppies.
Change the iso9660 to vfat.
You did build the vfat stuff with your kerenel ?
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[sinisterdomestik]

well imma try this boot disk......WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i SWEAR my computer is out to get me now. so i dl'ed that bootme.exe, did a

[sinisterdomestik]

im gonna assume that we are giving up. damnit
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[Griswold]

u dont need to type cp bootme.exe /mnt/floppy. That will copy the .exe onto the floppy. That is NOT what we want. Instead, get to a windows computer and RUN the .exe w/ the floppy in the drive (in WINDOWS mode). Hope that clears some stuff up. Good luck!

[sinisterdomestik]

well thank the lord!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think i will now re-install grub and see if that works. alhtough i must say, my windows part is SO fucked, imma have to look at that part. thank you all for your help and ill let you know how this works out
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[sinisterdomestik]

correct me if im wrong, but doesnt

[cokey]

[sinisterdomestik]

[cokey]

can you not remember your admin password?
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[cokey]

well you might as well save all your stuff and reinstall windows anyway to get a new one
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[Griswold]

First, is your /boot is on /dev/hdb1? If not, it looks like grub doesnt wanna work in your mbr. If u have a cd burner i can give u instructions on how to make an .iso that will boot w/ grub. (vs. isolinux, although if u want isolinux instead i can do that too) Then untill we can work out a better solution, u can just pop the cd in and boot that way. (it would be preferable if u have some cd-rws, but a cdr should work).

[sinisterdomestik]

[dfbreyes]

what happened when you inputted:
grub
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1,0)

was there an error before issued the 'quit' command?

[sinisterdomestik]

[sinisterdomestik]

well that didnt work either. rebooted and still went to doze start up screen. its lookin like re-installin doze is my ONLY option
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[dalek]

If I'm not mistaken this is the correct way to put on the MBR.

[Griswold]

dalek is correct, what u were accualy doing is installing it in the pbr of the first partition vs the mbr of the first harddrive. Do what dalek said and i guarentee it will work Have fun!

[sinisterdomestik]

well i just read your posts and i did that a coupla hours ago, i think i had something like setup (hd0,4) or somethin like that. all i know is i tried it on EVERY one until it worked. heh got it workin, all i gotta do now is re-emerge nvidia and we are in business. my windows partition is still b0rked so imma fix that.
thank you all SO much for helpin me with this. i have never had this much help with anything on here and i REALLY appreciate it. hopefully all is well now, my next post will be from opera, just to let yall know it worked 100%
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[sinisterdomestik]

YOU PEOPLE ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not only is it working, IT LOOKS BETTER THAN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant tell you enough how much i appreciate this. thank you all

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i dont think i will be upgrading my kernel ANY time soon after that damned swara (spelling is wrong) heh
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[dalek]

If you are using grub, changing kernels is easy. I do all mine as built in, NO modules, and I can change from one kernel to another with no problems.

I do have to re-emerge nvidia-kernel, it installs as a module but that is really easy and doesn't usually give much trouble.

If you are going to use Gentoo, you have to stay up to date with kernels and all that.

Glad you got it working though.

Later


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[Griswold]

Glad to see u have it working Like dalek said, upgrading/switching kernels is pretty easy w/ gentoo and grub. Just be sure to have a copy of either your old kernel or your old kernel's .config file so u can revert back if nessesary. I would go w/ just a copy of your old kernel, that way u can stick an option i ngrub so u can choose which one to use on-boot. I do that and it helps a bunch for upgrading kernels and adding support for stuff like udev in your comp. Cheers!

[dalek]

I'm posting a couple things for you to study. Yep, those are all kernels. I use the second line in grub for testing.

[jkruer01]

Hello,

I had the exact same thing happen to me and I did the following and it worked: