Re: Grub and win98 boot record
David P James declaimed:
> I really don't want to be rude here but his problem isn't
> with the harddisk's mbr - he made that quite clear in his
> post - 'fdisk /mbr' will do nothing other than purge his
> harddrive's mbr of grub, which is not what he wants to do.
> What he has done is that he also installed grub in the boot
> sector of his Win98 *partition* - that is, from a grub
> command line he typed 'setup (hd0,0)' (or install) rather
> than 'setup (hd0)'. It's this that he wants to fix. I did
> the exact same thing one time by accident as I got my
> harddrives mixed up. But I was able to use my Win95 boot
> disk and type 'sys c:' at the DOS prompt and I can now boot
> into Windows 95 again. I am not making this up...
>
No rudeness detected, thanks for the clarification re: MBR & partition.
I'll defer to your experience with grub on this one.
Thx, PM
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Paul Mackinney
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