grub os chooser

tjmm · 08-27-2001, 09:36 PM

hello.

i have a question on how to uninstall it. i read up on it and said to uninstall the Master Boot Record and gave the instructions

boot under dos and run the command

fdisk /mbr

could someone walk me through the dos part. i don't know much about it.....thanks.

RecoilUK · 08-27-2001, 11:07 PM

Hi there

I guess you have a boot disk for windows?

Its the one that when you put it in and reboot your PC you get a menu with three options

boot with cdrom support
boot without cdrom support
help file

do you have this disk

if you do then simply reboot and choose

boot without cdrom support (for no other reason than its quicker than with it)

then type in fdisk /mbr

which replaces the mbr with a default one that gets loaded when you first installed windows and your done.

One word of warning though, if you do this and you still want to get into linux then make sure you have the linux boot disk that you made when you installed linux.

tjmm · 08-28-2001, 09:13 PM

thanks, but i don't have a boot disk. at least not one that i know of. is there any hope still?

RecoilUK · 08-28-2001, 10:21 PM

What operating system dont you have a boot disk for?

RecoilUK

RecoilUK · 08-28-2001, 10:24 PM

If its windows 98 then simply put a blank floppy in the drive, startup windows explorer, right click on Drive A and choose format.

There should be an option to do a full format and an option to copy system files.

Choose both of them, then continue and your done.

RecoilUK

tjmm · 08-29-2001, 06:19 PM

hey thanks. i just used this windows 95 boot disk i found, even though i have windows me. it worked just fine. thanks again.

Wildfox · 08-30-2001, 01:38 PM

To make a boot disk from the win 9x series.

Format a disk and go into control panel, add/remove programs. There you will find an option at the top to create a boot disk. The win 95 boot is slightly better in my opinion for the fact it has all the tools! win 98 has the cd boot option! Best of both worlds. Make a win 98 boot disk and copy over some usefull files like edit.com and others! That disk will be a life saver when lilo dies on you and you need to get to windows. I would also suggest a linux boot disk incase this happens so you can get to linux to repair lilo.