On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:41:36PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 08:51:25 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:12:02PM +0800, Mr. Ray Chan wrote: > > > 1. Use a Win98 startup disk to start the system; > > > 2. After your saw the prompt, use command "FDISK /MBR"; > > > 3. Done. > > > > but that means if he wants to install another OS on that system, he'll > > have to reinstall GRUB. > > > > much better to just set up GRUB to automatically boot the windows > > partition after a fairly short (say 5 secs) delay. This will allow you > > enough time to boot a different system manually if you want, but your > > windows users will hardly notive the grub menu appearing before it > > times out and boots windows automatically. > > > > A > > > > No. Since grub is on the debian hard drive, it will not be found and the > computer won't be bootable at all. fdisk /mbr will solve the problem. oops. missed the "root .. for Grub is ..." part. you are correct. > If he REALLY wants to start a standalone win98 with grub, he can make a > small partition for a minimal distro with the sole purpose of starting > grub, but this wouldn't make any sense. so if grub is on (hd1) then why would he have to do anything to boot windows, other than make sure the bios boots the first drive? SOudns to me like windows is untouched. A > > > > > > > peasthope@cablelan.net さんは書きました: > > > > Debian users, > > > > > > > > I have a machine with two disks. /dev/hda has > > > > Windows 98; /dev/hdb has Debian Etch. Grub > > > > starts either system. The root partition for > > > > Grub is in Debian, (hd1,0). > > > > > > > > I want to move the Debian drive to another > > > > machine and leave the Windows disk in working > > > > order. Reinstalling Grub on the Debian disk > > > > in its new home is easy. > > > > > > > > Can anyone tell me how to arrange for the Windows > > > > system to start after the Debian disk is gone? > > > > > > > > Thanks, ... Peter > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > > > > > > -- > Szia: > Nyizsa. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Free pop3 email with a spam filter. > http://www.bluebottle.com > >
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