Once I got rid of Grub Windows 2000 and XP have always booted fine, you get a message about windows has finished installing a new device and you should reboot and that's it, I've done that many times. I'm a Windows Guy but I'm always trying Linux probably since RH 7.3 and then I take them off and never had a problem rebooting windows after getting rid of the boot loader. By the way one I got rid of right away was RHEL WS 3.0, I couldn't access the printer on my Server with the redhat printer configuration utility then I got a bunch of messages about all the upgrades I downloaded the new ISOs and reinstalled no difference with the printer so I took it off again, Fedora accesses the printer on the Server fine So I guess I donated $179.00 to Red Hat for Fedora being so nice... On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 19:33, John Nelson wrote: > Yes, GRUB would be gone on the Windows disk, but how do I get the > WIndows XP loader back on that MBR? Probably can't use Win98's loader > and as we've already seen, fixmbr and fixboot don't seem to work. > > -- John > > > Juan C. Valido wrote: > > >About the grub thing, it's probably in the MBR, if you have a win98 or > >winme boot floppy boot from it and type fdisk /mbr and it's gone... > >On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 11:22, John T Nelson wrote: > > > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>On the subject of FC1 problems, I recently tried to upgrade my RH 8 system > >>to FC1. While starting the upgrade, the installer exited complaining about > >>"corrupt or misaligned disk partitions". RH9 has the same problem with > >>this disk yet the old RH8 system boots and operates fine. > >> > >>Well right after this attempted upgrade, FC1 seems to have snuck GRUB into > >>either the MBR or chain loader because now when I try to boot Windows XP > >>(which is on a separate disk), I get a GRUB L prompt and hang. So FC1 > >>seems to have shoved GRUB onto my system before verifying that the install > >>was correct. I tried to correct this problem by using Windows XP Recovery > >>Console but niether fixmbr or fixboot correct the problem. > >> > >>And I really really hate GRUB. I've never been able to get that thing to > >>work properly and I'm miffed that FC1 pushes it on me without my consent. > >> > >>So I have two issues: > >> > >> 1) Misaligned disk partition > >> 2) GRUB installed (on disk 2?) > >> > >>Any suggestions on how to correct these problems? > >> > >>-- John > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > >
