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Re: Grub problem, cannot remove ir


From: Jochen Hoenicke
Subject: Re: Grub problem, cannot remove ir
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:18:13 +0100 (MET)

On Mar 12, Larry Pells wrote:
> Janus,
> 

> Another option is to reinstall Mandrake, then as root type: dd
> if=virgin.mbr of=/dev/hda

Be careful, as this also deletes the partition table.  You risk to
loose your Windows partition by doing this.  You should at least dump
(and print on paper) the partitions in detailed form with linux's
fdisk program so that you can use fdisk later to reinstall the
partitions at the exact positions they had before.  Don't use windows
fdisk as it will wipe out the contents when creating a partition.

Anyway make a backup first by doing:
 dd if=/dev/hda of=backup.mbr bs=512 count=1
Make sure that you don't mistype this command and put backup.mbr on a
floppy.

> Janus Friis wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with Grub: getting rid of it ..
> >
> > I had Windows 2000 and Mandrkae installed on two
> > paritions,
> >
> > I deleted Mandrake, and now it starts up in Grub. I
> > need to remove Grub from the boot record; I've tried
> > fdisk -mbr but I get the following erroe message:

Shouldn't it be "fdisk /mbr"?  I don't know if this changes anything.

  Jochen



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