Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone

[Tim Faehnle]

Okay, I think I figured it out.  I looked on the web a little bit and found this: "There is no concept uninstall in boot loaders, because if you uninstall a boot loader, an unbootable machine would simply remain. So all you need to do is overwrite another boot loader you like to your disk, that is, install the boot loader without uninstalling GRUB. For example, if you want to install the boot loader for Windows, just run FDISK /MBR on Windows. If you want to install LILO (I can't imagine why you want to do such a thing, though), run /sbin/lilo on GNU/Linux. " http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html#q11 I tried: "fdisk /MBR" in an MS-DOS prompt (didn't even have to leave windows), rebooted, and grub was gone (went directly to windows.).. thanks, Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Faehnle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 5:48 PM Subject: [expert] Grub Be Gone I'm trying out Linuxes (Linuxi?) I've fooled with Mandrake and now I'm going to try Redhat (don't hurt me), BUT when I installed Redhat, it seems that half of grub was still there.  I was thinking that I could just leave grub in there and use it to get to redhat, but that didn't work.  In the red hat install I can say "don't install LILO" or "Do install LILO". In either case, my computer boots up to "stage1" but then sits there and never gets to "stage2".  And I have to reinstall Mandrake to get to *any* OS.  So I figure that I have to uninstall Grub and use LILO or something:   Which brings me to my simple question: How do I uninstall Grub?   Not so simple question: I like grub better than LILO, can I keep Grub, but use redhat?  I know, I know, this is the Mandrake list.   Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks very much Tim