I installed gentoo from stage3, successfully, and grub, etc, i have Windows XP, on hda1, swap, on hda2, and linux on hda3, linux and windows are both 58 gigs each, swap is 1 gig, i have all my songs, and all my stuff in windows. But, when I try mounting it i get this.

host root # mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/Windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems

??, and I cannot boot windows xp, it reloads grub, my commands for that are.

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

, i think that is right,ntfs support it compiled in my kernel.

and when i emerge alsa-driver, etc. and try to load alsa, it loads oss emulation, etc. all it needs, then it just stops, so i press ctrl+z, and cancel it, and it says it's loaded, but it's not, trying to load it when boot, it does the same thing, however i cannot press ctrl+z to cacel, so i went to the livecd, and removed it from the boot.

this is very weird also, because I have done all thiss before, and alsa, etc, all worked fine, with no problems. this is just making me very angry, right now i'm in kde 3.3, with xorg 6.7.0-r1, no sound

type cat /proc/filesystems do you see ntfs if mot you need to rebouid your kernel with ntfs support.

I do not like grub, but the here is a great howto. It is info in lilo and grub
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...p=10#doc_chap2

ntfs is there, grub's not the problem though, I'm positive, It should boot after those commands, it just turns black for a second and restarts grub, it's that when I try to mount it, regularly, and in fstab, I get that error, and since it wouldn't be booting windows, I was wondering if it was a problem with Windows, because maybe it has a bad superblock?

well, I think that just totaly throws away windows xp, it's not coming back, but no big loss, it's windows

cos window$ has all these different anti-linux measures especially in xp so you cant read these new ntfs stuff

reinstall xp but in a vfat patition

linux does rule and window$ $uck$

I totaly agree with you, vfat is probaly a much better idea, but why install windows, I have gentoo.

Why do you need the 'makeactive' in your grub config? If it is because that /dev/hda1 is not the active partition I suggest making it so (I think win* really loves to be on the active partition). Then install lilo or grub on mbr. It use to work for me

ok, do i just totally remove make active