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Grub help required
Name: ad Date: August 16, 2002 at 23:43:59 Pacific
Comment:
I posted here before re installing Linux and XP on the same HD, and got a lot of useful advice from Varun Parekh, XMen, Johanovitch, and Graad, about making separate partitions. But I've seriously lost my way somewhere, I guess due to my total lack of experience with Linux. After typing fdisk /dev/hda and rebooting (the reason I did this was to remove Linux and start again), I now only get Grub appearing on on boot up. I was going to use fdisk to make new partitions, but now can't access fdisk any more .......... Can I use Grub to make the new partitions for XP ? and then how to access my CD drive (to install XP) from Grub ? Sorry if these are very basic questions but I've never seen this program before.
Name: Lawrence Date: August 17, 2002 at 08:11:23 Pacific
Reply:
If you want to remove GRUB from the master boot record, do this at the prompt, assuming you can boot your system using either Win95 win98 bootable disk,
fdisk /mbr
Lawrence
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Response Number 2
Name: gfunk999 Date: August 17, 2002 at 13:00:08 Pacific
Reply:
fdisk /mbr is good, however you could also use lysol, or pqmagic. PQMagic from powerquest will allow you to pre make your partitions before loading any OS. Hope this help.
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