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Econoline
01-12-2001, 05:31 PM
My printers don't work in Linux and I need to print something so, for the first time after the lnx4win install, I tried to boot into Windows. When I choose Windows in the bootloader, GRUB, a few sentences appear on the screen, not looking like an error, and then reloads GRUB.

Here is the contents of my /boot/grub/menu.1st file
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timeout 5
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
i18n (hd0,0)/lnx4win/boot/grub/messages
keytable (hd0,0)/lnx4win/boot/us.klt
altconfigfile (hd0,0)/lnx4win/boot/grub/menu.once
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/lnx4win/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk root=707 mem=112M hdc=ide-scsi
initrd (hd0,0)/lnx4win/boot/initrd-2.2.17-21mdk.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,0)/lnx4win/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk root=707 mem=112M hdc=ide-scsi failsafe
initrd (hd0,0)/lnx4win/boot/initrd-2.2.17-21mdk.img

title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

title floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1


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R6hooligan
01-12-2001, 09:08 PM
If you re-boot your computer with a windows start-up disk then goto the c: prompt and type the following:

fdisk /mbr

it will remove the start-up for linux and allows Windows to start-up normally. You can then manually delete all Linux files and everyhting will work normal.

Econoline
01-15-2001, 10:54 PM
"fdisk /mbr" doesn't work at all. Also, when I change to C drive, that works, but when I try a dir command on it, it says that is can't access it or something like that. But that doesn't make any sense because Linux is on the Windows partition, booting from an imaged EXT2 file system file. I did a lnx4win install as you should have already noticed from my post subject.

Econoline
01-17-2001, 11:13 PM
just bringin' the thing back to the top of the heap...

Econoline
01-18-2001, 05:58 PM
hmmm...won't it stay at the top of the heap? Oh well...please solve my problem.