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removing GRUB
Name: phextwin Date: September 3, 2002 at 04:20:28 Pacific
Comment:
can any of you folks tell me how to remove the red hat 7.3 boot loader, GRUB?
Name: Lawrence Date: September 3, 2002 at 04:56:47 Pacific
Reply:
Boot your system using either Windows 95/98 floppy disk and at the A:> prompt, type
fdisk /mbr
Lawrence
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: September 3, 2002 at 08:21:05 Pacific
Reply:
Run lilo as root?!=o)
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Response Number 3
Name: phextwin Date: September 4, 2002 at 03:02:04 Pacific
Reply:
wont that stop it loading windows though?
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Response Number 4
Name: 3Dave Date: September 4, 2002 at 04:10:05 Pacific
Reply:
yes!=o)
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Response Number 5
Name: phextwin Date: September 5, 2002 at 00:49:32 Pacific
Reply:
so how does one make it load windows again.....
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Response Number 6
Name: 3Dave Date: September 5, 2002 at 02:25:37 Pacific
Reply:
You mention about windows...this is a linux forum!=o)
You could make sure that there is a valid entry in lilo.conf for a windoze boot and make that the default, but your best bet is to use a 9x boot floppy and fdisk /mbr....its been said many a time on this forum.
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Response Number 7
Name: Javahead Date: September 7, 2002 at 01:45:22 Pacific
Reply:
If you're dual booting, fdisk /mbr should do the trick, but becareful. If your windows is too much to lose, I suggest using Partition Magic to move it to a secondary hhd. Although it is known that PM has trouble with Linux Ext3 partition.
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Response Number 8
Name: phextwin Date: September 16, 2002 at 03:38:14 Pacific
Reply:
it is alredy on a second hdd, all i want is to remove grub or replace it with a windows loader or summat.
Summary: yes, when I installed 7.2 rh I used grub as my boot loader. I usually use a floppy disk to boot linux and that way when I turn my computer on it automaticly boots windows, well this time I acceden...
Summary: I installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Complete and I want to go back to my old trusty 7.1. Durring the install of 7.2 I set the boot logger GRUB into the MBR. I know that to remove GRUB I would have to boot ...
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