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   TokaMundo to All   
   Re: can't find BIOS drive number   
   15 Jul 05 22:43:32   
   
   From: TokaMundo@weedizgood.org   
      
   On 9 Jul 2005 17:55:57 -0700, suterb@hotmail.com Gave us:   
      
   >I fixed the problem, and all I had to do was change one measly setting   
   >in the BIOS. I got the idea from reading a walkthrough about getting   
   >Linux and WinXP to boot. Here's what I did, for those of you having the   
   >same problem:   
   >   
   >1. I went into the BIOS and went into where it said "Standard CMOS   
   >Features".   
   >   
   >2. From there, I chose the hard drive the BeOS partition was on and hit   
   >Enter   
   >   
   >3. After that, I changed the access mode from Auto to LBA.   
   >   
   >Everything's working fine now. I'm using GAG (   
   >http://gag.sourceforge.net/ ) as my boot manager, and it works great.   
   >:-D   
      
     Well, my bootloader post isn't needed now...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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