Hello!
I understand that GRUB 0.92 will be released soon. I sent this patch
already and it was rejected because some better solution is planned. The
problem is very serious under Linux 2.4.x on ext3 and reiferfs - it's very
easy to make the system unbootable if my patch is not applied.
I apologize in advance if this topic has been beaten to death. I've
reviewed at least 100+ articles on usenet and haven't found a
satisfactory answer for a recurring problem.
Under the heading How to Uninstall GRUB from my hard disk drive?, the
FAQ states that there is no concept uninstall in
Boot from a dos floppy and:
fdisk /mbr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RD Lawrence) writes:
I apologize in advance if this topic has been beaten to death. I've
reviewed at least 100+ articles on usenet and haven't found a
satisfactory answer for a recurring problem.
Under the heading How to Uninstall
Thanks for the suggestion, but we don't have any DOS floppies. Is there a
way that this problem can be fixed *WITHOUT* purchasing an MSDOS 6.x license
from microsoft?
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
Boot from a dos floppy and:
fdisk /mbr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RD Lawrence) writes:
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RD Lawrence wrote:
|Thanks for the suggestion, but we don't have any DOS floppies. Is there a
|way that this problem can be fixed *WITHOUT* purchasing an MSDOS 6.x
license
|from microsoft?
|
freedos?
http://www.freedos.org/
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Iain Rae
Even if we had DOS floppies, I'm not sure this solution would work without
juggling the cable connections. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I've heard that
Microsoft's fdisk program makes the ASSUMPTION that the boot disk is hda0,0. In
the situations that I keep coming across, this isn't the case.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, RD Lawrence wrote:
|Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
|
| Boot from a dos floppy and:
| fdisk /mbr
|
|Thanks for the suggestion, but we don't have any DOS floppies. Is there a
|way that this problem can be fixed *WITHOUT* purchasing an MSDOS 6.x license
|from
Hi!
Thanks for the suggestion, but we don't have any DOS floppies. Is there a
way that this problem can be fixed *WITHOUT* purchasing an MSDOS 6.x license
from microsoft?
Get OpenDOS:
ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/drdos/OpenDOS.701/
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
Thanks for the heads up regarding a free version of DOS. We stupidly threw away
our DOS diskettes years ago, iin 1984 if memory serves, after convincing ourselves
that DOS was totally unnecessary in a good unix working environment. :-)We
never realized that we would eventually find
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, RD Lawrence wrote:
|Does anyone know how to safely rewrite MBRs *and* PBRs on linux drives
|and partitions using *LINUX* tools? Apart from confusing and
|ambiguous documentation, the problem of removing grub seems to be the
|number #1 complaint from grub users.
The MBR
RD Lawrence wrote:
Thanks for the heads up regarding a free version of DOS. We stupidly threw away
our DOS diskettes years ago, iin 1984 if memory serves, after convincing ourselves
that DOS was totally unnecessary in a good unix working environment. :-)We
never realized that we would
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RD Lawrence) writes:
Even if we had DOS floppies, I'm not sure this solution would work without
juggling the cable connections. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I've heard that
Microsoft's fdisk program makes the ASSUMPTION that the boot disk is hda0,0. In
the situations that I
Kingsly,
Is c specifier required in the block size parameter (bs=446c)? I think
the default unit size is a block of 512 bytes.
Ilguiz
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Kingsly John wrote:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=446 count=1
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Iain Rae wrote:
|well, why not install lilo then remove it again (or does it put back
|what was there before?)
Lilo makes a backup of the mbr or whereever you are installing lilo *if* a
backup doesn't already exist.
And the -u option in lilo simply re-writes this backup
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
|On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Kingsly John wrote:
|
| # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=446 count=1
|
|Is c specifier required in the block size parameter (bs=446c)? I think
|the default unit size is a block of 512 bytes.
c is a multiplier with value 1 so
At 04 Apr 2002 15:22:30 -0500,
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
Correct. So I really don't get why you want to remove grub from hd1 if
you plan to boot from hd3... Boot from hd3 and don't give a damn about
hd1!
You are right. Russell just said nonsense.
Okuji
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:49:51PM -0800, John Coffman wrote:
I think someone who is running two or more operating systems is more
sophistocated than the casual user.
Why can't my grandma try out GNU/Linux without needing to know what
boot or partition means? Why do I have to tell her but be
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
At 04 Apr 2002 15:22:30 -0500,
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
Correct. So I really don't get why you want to remove grub from hd1 if
you plan to boot from hd3... Boot from hd3 and don't give a damn about
hd1!
You are right. Russell just said nonsense.
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:26:53AM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
But I think the method I suggested of zeroing out the first 446 bytes
should work because I think that must be what fdisk /mbr must be doing
too.
fdisk /mgr is installing a different bootloader. It doesn't
just zero out the
Ok, now what you mean is worth considering. I couldn't figure out why
you wanted to remove GRUB. Sorry, if my reply sounded offensive.
I understand GRUB should make a backup before installing itself, and
if a backup is made, writing grub-uninstall would be very easy. I'll
investigate how
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
I understand GRUB should make a backup before installing itself, and
if a backup is made, writing grub-uninstall would be very easy. I'll
investigate how backup/uninstall should work, since there are some
situations where it is not very clear what that looks like
Hi,
I apologize in advance, because I am shure that my problem isn't a
grub-bug, so this posting is somewhat out of topic for this list - but I
dont now where else to answer.
I'm using grub-0.90.
I wanted to create a GRUB boot floppy, so I did:
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
Hi,
I have a RH7.2 Linux desktop but my system administrator has the root
password to my machine. A couple of days back this admin left our company and
forgot to give anyone the root password of my machine. The new admin doesn't
really know what to do in this situation. My bootloader is GRUB.
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