Newbie Goof!!
Hi guys. I installed Debian 3.1 on the second HD of my main computer and it loaded Grub as the boot loader. Well, the HD with Debian died a horrible death complete with sickening crunching noise and now my computer freezes when Grub can't find Linux. How do I get rid of Grub?
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tchumley; two ways 1st: replace grub with lilo from rpm package from 3rd set of CDs( providing u have complete set) or from within setup disk.
2nd: Restore or Rescue mode. last resort reinstall but use lilo. |
Re: Newbie Goof!!
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What's on the surviving HDD? If it's something like Win98/ME, make sure you have a boot floppy (or CD and tell it to load up the command prompt), load from that and perform "fdisk /mbr". WinXP, I think the rescue option from the boot CD will work. As for other Linux distros... SUSE, I know, comes with an option to boot into an existing Linux OS. Not sure about other distros, alas. |
fdisk /mbr fixed it. Thanks.
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Glad to help!
Going to get another HDD to put Debian on? And any idea why the other hard drive had died?
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