ot* the case, then we *definitely* need a way to uninstall
grub. Otherwise, problems could ensue each and every time a user
installs a new hard drive. Even if grub does honor the "(in)active"
flag, it still makes sense to give it the capability to "clean" a BR for
a variety of
"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 nons
Right. It puts back what was there before. What we need is 1) a facility for saving
the MBRs and PBRs prior to grub installation; 2) a facility for restoring a vanilla MBR
and PBR if necessary, without overwriting the partition table; and 3) a facility for
restoring former MBRs and PBRs that ha
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
> |
> |Tha
this isn't the case.
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?
>
> Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
>
> > Boo
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
b to be cleanly removed from an MBR and a partition boot
record. Alternatively, 'dd' could probably do the trick. Could some
kind soul recommend the proper lengths and offsets? Comments?
Suggestions?
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RD Lawrence
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