Problems?

Dave Andruczyk djandruczyk at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 29 08:37:53 EDT 2004


Easy fix.  Get a dos boot floppy with fdisk on it..  boot it up and run "fdisk
/mbr"  This will wipe out grub. (works for lilo as well)

You might need to run the restore process as well again though to create a
working MBR for winblows (chunks)...


--- Christopher  Crowell <crowell33 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hey Everyone!
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> Ok, I think I have a problem. I tried to take Red Hat 8 off my laptop and
> put Windows XP back on it. I know, I know, a bad thing to do in the first,
> but I have good reasons. Anyway, I put in the QuickRestore CD in that came
> with the laptop (it's a Compaq) and restarted it. It went through all of the
> motions, the reloading, etc..I rebooted it after it was done and now I get
> this screen.
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> GRUB   version 0.92   (634 lower/374720k upper memory)
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> [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists
> possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
> completions of a device/filename
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> Grub>
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> Now, what the hell do I do? How can I fix this? Thanks a ton for everyone's
> help in advance.
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> Chris
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Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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