Re: How to de-Grub?
Stephen Cradock wrote:
Then, as one does when playing with Linux, I went stark staring bonkers,
and decide to try Gentoo - a friend told me it was much easier to
install. Rather than make yet another partition, I wiped the Sarge
partition and installed Gentoo there, from a CD. That went OK, but also
failed to detect my ethernet card. So it's back to Windows to go online
to find out what to do next - URGGGH - Grub failed, of course - I had
wiped out menu.lst when I deleted Sarge. So I couldn't get into Windows,
or online with Gentoo.....
Now I want to remove Grub - it has gone and installed itself in my MBR,
and I don't know how to get it out. Any help?
I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD. LILO, unlike
GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other
partition for the stage 2 loader which GRUB requires.
You should be able to do this using the alternate options in the menus of the
installer. First you'll have to choose the keyboard map, and then mount the
root partition. Then one of the alternate options is something like "install
LILO in the MBR". Do this (note that it'll overwrite /etc/lilo.conf in the
partition that you mounted as /).
Actually, I've only done this to restore the MBR when I've actually had a debian
system installed, so YMMV.
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