[TriLUG] help! Removal of RH Grub

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Guess I'm gonna start a flame war, but here goes:

I used to agree with you Jason on lilo vs. grub, but now I have to sing the
praises of grub. I have had less problems getting grub installed than lilo.
Granted I've installed it and rebuilt my multiple PC's about 10 time each in
the past 2 years (good experience), so I may have the jump on you there.

I found this howto very helpful:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO/proc.html#AEN54

I do agree you need to reinstall a bootloader.  One thing you can do is boot
from a Win98SE boot disk, run fdisk /mbr and boot off the linux disk and
reinstall RH 8. 

Hope it helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Tower [mailto:jason at cerient.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 1:08 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] help! Removal of RH Grub


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


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