Deleting Mandrake "grub" loader?

[matei]

Hello!

I am trying to wipe out any trace of Mandrake 7.2 from my Inspiron laptop (great o/s, but doesn't work well with my display). However, when I reformatted my linux partition and installed Red Hat 7, the system displayed "stage1" (left over from Mandrake?) and stopped. Nothing would get me past that point.

Is there anything I can do to get rid of that? For what it is worth, the laptop is a dual-boot Linux/Win2k.



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Slán leat!

Mat Riain

[pbharris]

if grub installs to the MBR just run LILO with the lilo.conf , you could also use MS fdisk and , fdisk /mbr

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[mdwatts]

First boot with a Dos/Win9x boot diskette and run 'fdisk /mbr' (this will get rid of Grub) and then you will need to use your Linux boot disk (you did create one didn't you) to boot Linux. Update /etc/lilo.conf to setup dual boot with Windows (read the NHF here at LNO on the subject) and then run /sbin/lilo to rewrite lilo to the MBR.

[blackwolf_c]

FDISK /MBR should work perfect at.....
removing grub, and all other OS boot choices
except windows.
the person above me says it better than I could.

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[Phyber Op]

yep, you can use a DOS boot disk to remove GRUB, I did it earlier today because I was formatting my Linux Partition, it does work and makes your computer boot back into Windoze as the default.
1. Insert Boot Disk and Reboot computer
2. at the A:\> prompt type FDISK /MBR
3. Reboot PC

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