help GRUB

rc10gttb · 08-27-2005, 04:56 PM

How do u unistall it. see what happened first was i had linux 9 on a widows 98 computer which just killed the memory so i took off linux and put in the windows 98 recovery disk and it formated the disk and installed windows 98 back on but when u turn the computer back on it come to a black screen with one word on it and it is the word GRUB. can some one get me detailed instructions on how to remove this, so i can have a normal windows operating computer again. thanks in advance andrew

linmix · 08-27-2005, 05:24 PM

for windows 98, insert the boot floppy and at the command line type "fdisk /mbr"

b0nd · 08-27-2005, 09:40 PM

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Originally posted by linmix
for windows 98, insert the boot floppy and at the command line type "fdisk /mbr"

Since i haven't used windows 98, i'm doubtful that if he has reinstalled his 98 then why it didn't overwrite the grub in mbr ???
Do you manually require to "fdisk /mbr" in case of 98.???

regards

masand · 08-27-2005, 10:30 PM

"fdisk /mbr" rewrites the windows mbr no matter which windows version is installed

in newer version of win u need to use "fixmbr"

regards

b0nd · 08-27-2005, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by masand
"fdisk /mbr" rewrites the windows mbr no matter which windows version is installed

in newer version of win u need to use "fixmbr"

regards

Agree.
What i intended to ask was that generally when we reinstall windows XP it automatically rewrites mbr. But here why we have to use "fdisk /mbr" manually ??? Doesn't win 98 after reinstallation, in case of dual booting, overwrites the grub boot loader in mbr ??
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masand · 08-28-2005, 06:44 AM

just to check that windows was installed correctly,but the MBR wasn't

u can rewrite the win mbr using fdisk /mbr or fixmbr

regards