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 ourselves grappling with a unix-like bootloader with an inherent weakness that would force us to temporarily revert back to this ancient OS. :-)
Ironically, I will probably go back to recommending Lilo in the future unless/until this problem is resolved *without* using other OSes. Lilo may be a poorer choice in many respects but its designers do understand that a user might wish to stop using it under some circumstances. Let me repeat my original question: 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. Kingsly John wrote: > 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 microsoft? > > Whoever said DOS == MS-DOS only ?? > > Take a look at FreeDos it should be having the same fdisk features and is > opensource! > _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
