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Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again)
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RD Lawrence |
Subject: |
Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again) |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:28:53 -0600 |
Even if we had DOS floppies, I'm not sure this solution would work without
juggling the cable connections. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I've heard that
Microsoft's fdisk program makes the ASSUMPTION that the boot disk is hda0,0. In
the situations that I keep coming across, this isn't the case.
RD Lawrence wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, but we don't have any DOS floppies. Is there a
> way that this problem can be fixed *WITHOUT* purchasing an MSDOS 6.x license
> from microsoft?
>
> Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
>
> > Boot from a dos floppy and:
> > fdisk /mbr
> >
> > address@hidden (RD Lawrence) writes:
> > >
> > > In briefly reviewing previous discussions on this list and on usenet,
> > > I've come across the suggestion to use DOS fdisk /mbr. I'm not sure
> > > that this would work in the aforementioned scenario, and in any case, it
> > > seems a bit lame to fall back on DOS in order to remedy a flaw in linux
> > > software.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > --
> > Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer E-Mail : address@hidden
> > It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a
> > proper judge of it.
> > -- Oscar Wilde
>
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- Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again),
RD Lawrence <=
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/05
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2002/04/05
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/05
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Iain Rae, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Kingsly John, 2002/04/04
- Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/04
- Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), Kingsly John, 2002/04/04
- Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), Ilguiz Latypov, 2002/04/04