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:
In
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
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/
- --
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/
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
[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
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
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.
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
12 matches
Mail list logo
