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Old 01-17-2005, 03:08 PM   #1
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howto remove GRUB from the unix root partition ?


hi

howto remove GRUB from the unix partition, without damage the partition ?

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Old 01-17-2005, 05:22 PM   #2
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You don't remove bootloaders (Otherwise your system won't boot at all ), usually you just overwrite them. What bootloader do you want to use?
 
Old 01-17-2005, 05:52 PM   #3
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I use only NT-Bootloader from WIN2000 installed on the primary hard disk.

to boot linux and unix with the NT-Bootloader I use bootpart:
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

this combination works very well !

my problem is to remove GRUB from the linux root partition and I'm not worried about booting.

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Old 01-17-2005, 06:00 PM   #4
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You shouldn't need to remove it simply unintall grub if you don't want it about. The part of the disk its on won't have any effect. You could use something like dd I suppose but your likely to damage the disk.
 
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thanks, but how to uninstall it from Debian's shell ?

GRUB was installed on the root partition /dev/hdb6
 
Old 01-17-2005, 06:21 PM   #6
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I assume by the shell that you mean that grub comes up and the CLI when you type grub.

apt-get remove --purge grub

this will remove grub.
 
Old 01-18-2005, 07:09 PM   #7
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thanks !

in this partition I have important data.
anyway I saved everything using freesbie.

maybe the solution is:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb4 bs=400 count=1
or to use /dev/random, but I have never used before.
Knows someone, how it should work using /dev/random ?

greetings
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