Removing Debian 2.2, Grub, Starting Fresh...

pazz33 · 01-30-2007, 04:38 AM

Greetings,

Looking to wipe everything off my hard drive, debian 2.2 and grub, and start fresh.

The Issue,

I am booting to the cd getting the "searching for boot record from cdrom...not found".

"booting HD1/_" (hang)

I am familiar with ranish if need be.

amibios 1996
x86 266 mhz 8 gig hd

Any input or feedback is apppreciated, :-D

Cheers

Simon Bridge · 01-30-2007, 04:41 AM

1. You have the wrong CD inserted?
2. The CD is corrupt?
3. You hardware is broken?

So which CD are you talking about?
You don't need Ranish for this.

pazz33 · 01-30-2007, 05:26 AM

booted to this cd previously and installed
debian 2.2, grub

can boot to dos and dir

may just swap the drive out ;-)

Simon Bridge · 01-30-2007, 06:01 AM

your message too terse
note: prev. booting of cd not indicative
better help with fuller message

saikee · 01-30-2007, 06:09 AM

Then just use the Dos floppy

(1) fdisk /mbr will nuke the Grub in mbr

(2) Run Dos's "fdisk" to delete all the partitions. Earlier Dos may refuse to touch non-dos partition but you can always use a Linux Live CD's "fdisk" or "cfdisk" to deletion the hard disk partitions.