I know this isn't a knoppix list, but it's debian based, and I'm not having much luck at other places. Hope you can help :) I made a new computer (yay), and proceeded install the Fedora Core. After playing with it for a little while, I thought "No, I don't think so", and did a hard disk install of my trusted knoppix CD (which served me so well in the past). Everything was fine until reboot time, when it booted into grub, and stayed there. No kernel or os booted, I just got this grub prompt. It goes into Debian when I use the boot floppy, but not when it boots from hd. I'm assuming this is because Fedora wrote a boot sector that wasn't deleted by the knoppix install. I know that lilo installed. I tried looking into fdisk and cfdisk to see if I could wipe the hd and start again, but I wasn't able to figure our how to reformat a partition. I mean completely wipe it. I also tried uninstalling grub using dselect. I assume that the grub that I uninstalled was a debian grub, not the one that is booting my system. Is there an easy way to make the hd blank, as new, so that I can install knoppix again? Or a way to make lilo boot instead of this grub thing? Sorry if you've heard this question a hundered times before. Being a convert from windows, I'm not completely up with a lot of the terminal commands. Although it does seem a lot quicker than doing things via a gui ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
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