Re: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-10-02 Thread shane
unless you want to seriously f-up your file system don't use exit to dos, rather use reboot to dos. exit to dos has been done to curropt file systems so bad as to require fdisk and reinstall. just a thought. On Monday 01 October 2001 10:18, you spoke unto me thusly: I'm not sure this is

RE: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-10-01 Thread Adrian Lynch
I'm not sure this is true, I have ME (God bless my soul) and I can, I think, exit to DOS. Or am I thinking of something else? -Original Message- From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 September 2001 21:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems Just

Re: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-10-01 Thread Robert MacLean
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:18 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems I'm not sure this is true, I have ME (God bless my soul) and I can, I think, exit to DOS. Or am I thinking of something else? -Original Message- From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15

RE: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-10-01 Thread Franki
Lynch Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 10:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems I'm not sure this is true, I have ME (God bless my soul) and I can, I think, exit to DOS. Or am I thinking of something else? -Original Message- From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-10-01 Thread Robert MacLean
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:54 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems are you sure?? I was under the impression that ME had hidden dos and didn't allow you to use it, except as an emulation from the start button... 98SE will let you, but I know for a fact that 2000

Re: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-10-01 Thread Warren Post
Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:54 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems are you sure?? I was under the impression that ME had hidden dos and didn't allow you to use it, except as an emulation from the start button

RE: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-15 Thread Hans N.
Just a Windohz warning, people with Windohz ME can't exit to DOS. Restarting in DOS mode is not an option. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of d What I am trying to say in all of this is I did NOT use a WinBlow$ boot disk, did it

[newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Thread Adam Cripps
I installed a lnx4win Mandrake 8.0 on a pc, which would load a text bootloader fine. However, when I decided to uninstall, I deleted the lnx4win folder (in windows) and rebooted. Grub still starts and then, being a complete newbie, I don't know how to get past it. Is there any way of getting

Re: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Thread Paul
Boot with a win floppy and run fdisk /mbr (as so often we hand out winders info...) I installed a lnx4win Mandrake 8.0 on a pc, which would load a text bootloader fine. However, when I decided to uninstall, I deleted the lnx4win folder (in windows) and rebooted. Grub still starts and

RE: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Thread James S Bear
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Grub problems I installed a lnx4win Mandrake 8.0 on a pc, which would load a text bootloader fine. However, when I decided to uninstall, I deleted the lnx4win folder (in windows) and rebooted. Grub still starts and then, being a complete newbie, I

RE: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Thread d
LURKER here, NOT a guru still trying to learn how to be a NEWBY. NOW for this prob, just corrected a prob I had with my system. My system was booting to LILO and I use the PowerQuest's BootMagic, I booted to LILO and then typed in windows, then went into the BootMagic Configuration and set

RE: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Thread Adrian Lynch
Boot Record.biut like I said, wait for confirmation from someone else -Original Message- From: Adam Cripps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 September 2001 12:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Grub problems I installed a lnx4win Mandrake 8.0 on a pc, which would load

Re: [newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Thread Richie de Almeida
Is there any way of getting rid of Grub, so that the machine boots straight into Windows? Boot with a Windows floppy disk, the System boot disk that you can create from Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel is a good one to use. At the command prompt type: SYS C: You must have a file

RE: [newbie] GRUB problems

2001-04-04 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Boot from your Linux boot disk, Login as root, goto /boot/grub/menu.lst and do a ./install.sh This will get things going. Moose -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] GRUB

[newbie] GRUB problems (update)

2001-04-04 Thread willcoxa
Do you mean you want me to add that line to the menu.lst file or do you mean you want me to execute that command while in that directory. When I try it as a command it says permission denied even though I'm logged in as root.

[newbie] GRUB problems

2001-04-03 Thread willcoxa
Well, being new to linux I screwed up enough stuff that I thought it good to do a fresh install, but this time something got screwed up with GRUB. On previous installations I was able to have linux on my second drive and grub was able to load windows2000 from my first drive... something that