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
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?
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From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 September 2001 21:06
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Just
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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?
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From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15
Lynch
Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 10:19 PM
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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?
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From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
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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
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From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
Just a Windohz warning, people with Windohz ME can't exit to DOS.
Restarting in DOS mode is not an option.
Hans N.
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What I am trying to say in all of this is I
did NOT use a WinBlow$ boot disk, did it
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
yep, or if it's a win95 or win98 boot disk, it is on the A: drive.
Quoting Adrian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Adam, not two weeks ago I did exactly the same thing, and it was a weekend
so I had no way of finding out how to fix it. you might want to wait for
someone to confirm this answer, but
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
Adam, not two weeks ago I did exactly the same thing, and it was a weekend
so I had no way of finding out how to fix it. you might want to wait for
someone to confirm this answer, but you use a Windoze Boot disk get into the
c drive ( dir c: and press enter) then fdisk /mbr this clears the Master
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
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
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