On 26. July 2000 Nathaniel Pendleton wrote:
> Grub has been taking lessons from roarches, I spray and lay traps but it
> wont leave me alone.
>
> I select Windows in grub, and what happens, grub restarts!
> Grub is the C:?
>
>
> I had some difficulty getting Grub to install with the Mandrake 7.1
> isntall/reinstall.
> Now I try to FDISK /MBR and installed System command, and Grub starts anyway
> when I select Windows or dos. WHY?
It seems you have installed the grub stage1 (the grub boot sector) onto the
boot sector of your windows partition. Because of this it will be left
unchanged by fdisk /mbr as this commands changes only the partition sector
(i.e. the first sector of the whole hard disk, whereas the boot sector is
the first sector of a partition). fdisk /mbr will boot your dos/windows
partition by default, so you see grub.
If you chose Windows or dos in your grub menu you probably actually chose
to chainload the first sector of your dos/windows partition (where usually
dos/windows boot sector is installed, but in your case it is grub's stage1).
So you restart grub.
I hope I didn't misinterpret the symptoms
Martin
