[TriLUG] help! Removal of RH Grub

[Jason Tower]

you don't really need to "get rid" of grub, you just need to overwrite the
MBR (master boot record) with a fresh bootloader.  frankly, i find LILO
easier to understand and work with than GRUB, you might try using that
next time.  when you reinstall the OS, make sure you delete or overwrite
the existing boot loader and you should be golden.

jason

PS - i usually find it easier to troubleshoot boot problems, especially
with GRUB, if i have a dedicated /boot partition on the first boot device
(i.e. /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1).  100MB should be plenty.

> I tried to upgrade to RH 8.  The upgrade appeared to work (as in the
> machine booted, RH 8 came up, blah) but I could not get routing, DHCP,
> or IP Masq to work properly so I popped in the RH 7.1 CDs and downgraded
> to 7.1  This appears to have been a mistake.
>
> After the downgrade back to 7.1 the machine would boot and come up to a
> GRUB> prompt (the help "file" was of no help when stuck at the GRUB>
> prompt).  I couldn't get the machine to do dookie after that so I
> upgraded back to 8.0 and tried to find a way to get rid of GRUB.
> Couldn't find one.
>
> How do I get rid of GRUB and get back to RH 7.1?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated (I'm DIALING in right now.. modems
> are so SLOW).
>
> Greg
>
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Jason Tower
Cerient Technologies
jason at cerient.net