On Thu 22 July 2004 10:20, Stephen Cradock wrote: > OK, so it's a Windows question, not a Linux one... > > BUT in case anyone else here ever has the same problem, here's the > fix: > > Recap - I allowed Grub to install itself in my MBR while trying to > install sarge, and then found I couldn't wipe out the sarge > installation because that left Grub without its menu.lst config file > for booting anything; so how was I to get rid of Grub so that I could > reliably boot Windows XP on start-up, or boot to various Linux > flavors using CD or floppy boot disks. (I had to re-install sarge > just to get at menu.lst!!!) In fact you could have placed menu.lst in a Windows partition - I did that once because of some Windowsian funniness when it came to booting a mixed IDE & SCSI system. In a typical set up, the Windows C: drive would be (hd0,0) and, say, C: \grub\menu.lst would be (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst Besides all that, you could still have booted Windows from the GRUB command line by issuing the following series of commands: rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Then gone into Windows, created the aforementioned C:\grub\menu.lst, then rebooted and tell GRUB that that's where it wanted to look for a menu.lst. Of course it does help to have a GRUB boot floppy too... :) -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: davidpjames@jabber.org If you've lost something, you had to lose it, not loose it.
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