Re: Removing Windows from Dual Boot

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  On 08/26/2010 10:41 AM, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:31 -0400, Weiner, Michael wrote:
>> I am sure this has been asked a number of times, and I am not finding
>> anything relevant using a google search, so I thought I would post my
>> query here. I have a user that owns a Dell Inspiron laptop, that has a
>> 60G drive split in two, with Windows XP on the first partition, and
>> Fedora Core 7 on the second. Now, he decides he would like me to
>> remove Windows XP and make it a 100% linux laptop. Great, I think to
>> myself, a convert! Until I look at the way it is configured:
>>
>>
>>
>> [root@leex ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
>>
>>
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
>>
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
>>
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>
>>
>>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>
>> /dev/sda1   *           1        3470    27872743+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>>
>> /dev/sda2            3471        3483      104422+  83  Linux
>>
>> /dev/sda3            3484        7296    30627922+  8e  Linux LVM
>>
>>
>>
>> [root@leex ~]# df
>>
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>>
>>                        28599044  22148476   4974372  82% /
>>
>> /dev/sda2               101105     18631     77253  20% /boot
>>
>> tmpfs                   257416         0    257416   0% /dev/shm
>>
>>
>>
>> And from /boot/grub/grub.conf
>>
>> #boot=/dev/sda
>>
>> default=0
>>
>> timeout=5
>>
>> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>
>> hiddenmenu
>>
>> title Fedora Core 7
>>
>>          root (hd0,1)
>>
>>          kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro
>> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>>
>>          initrd /initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
>>
>> title Microsoft Windows XP
>>
>>          rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>
>>          chainloader +1
>>
>>
>>
>> I find many tutorials showing how to uninstall Linux from the second
>> partition and return the machine back to the original XP
>> configuration, but none really documenting the process going the other
>> way (eg keeping linux and dumping xp). And I am not even sure it can
>> be done.
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone done this? If so, is there some documentation that I can
>> sneak a peak at to help push me in the right direction?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Michael
>>
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> Well the first thing I would do would be to modify the grub.conf file
> and comment out the lines that make windows an option to boot.
>
> After a test boot that shows only linux as boot options in the grub
> menu, I would remove the commented lines out of the grub.conf and boot
> again.
>
> Last thing to do would be to trash the windows partition, reformat that
> as an LVM partition and add it to LVM as another logical volume.

Or just a regular non-lvm partition.


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