Re: cant uninstall grub

[Timothy Baldwin]

On Thursday 25 December 2003 23:06, Jason wrote:
> hey folks, I know this is a dead horse, but it still needs beating! ;)
> I had tried to install grub on my fresh gentoo 1.4 installation.
> For whatever reason, I couldnt get grub to boot my linux install.
> so I dropped back to LILO (boooo hisss). anyway, lilo works fine and dandy
> to boot linux, but I do have a winblows 2k install on my disk as well.
> it was on hda1. so when I tell lilo to boot my hda1 win2k, it seems to do
> so, but all I get is
> GRUB
> and nothing else..
> I tried doing fdisk /mbr and that removed lilo, but when I try booting
> that hda1 win2k partition, I still get the word
> GRUB
> when it tries to boot and nothing else..
> can anyone help on this?

You installed GRUB onto your win2k, instead of the MBR or Linux partition. 
Boot to the win2k recovery console (from the win2k CD or floppies), and use 
the FIXBOOT command.



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