Help with uninstall!!!

LavaDevil94 · 09-24-2003, 06:55 PM

your mbr is scratched. youre gonna have to restore it with something like the linux boot floppy or maybe you could boot using knoppix and fix the problem?

aaa · 09-24-2003, 06:55 PM

It gives you 0's and 1's because the second-stage was probably was on there, and so was the config file for it.
edit: there being the 2nd hard drive.

Twiggz · 09-24-2003, 07:07 PM

I have done that and the only drive it lets me switch to is the one that had linux on it. It doesnt even recognize the other HD.

Twiggz · 09-24-2003, 07:10 PM

During the install of Mandrake will it give me any boot options? Or can I fix it any other way during the install? I really need to fix this so my parents quit nagging me about it.

Twiggz · 09-24-2003, 07:28 PM

Thanx you guys I fixed it I feel so good now. The fdisk /mbr command wasnt on the XP boot disk I found an old 98 boot disk and it worked awesome. Thanx for all of your help now I have to try to install it on my other computer which keeps giving me ramdisk errors.

adamkor · 09-25-2003, 03:05 PM

see: user adamkor problem on this page it remove GRUB totally

r_jensen11 · 09-25-2003, 03:46 PM

Just boot into Windows and run the command for having Windows install its boot manager. However, I would try having the family be willing to bear a 3 second boot loader menu, and have Windows be the default boot option. They should bew willing to follow this, unless they really want the disk space....

aaa · 09-26-2003, 07:32 AM

What I do is set the timeout to zero, so the menu doesn't even appear unless I press the shift key.

r_jensen11 · 09-26-2003, 02:23 PM

aaa, is there a way to have a key to open the boot menu for LILO if the timeout is commented out?

aaa · 09-26-2003, 02:54 PM

Not sure exactly what I did, ie I'm not sure if I commented the line out or if I did something else, but I press the shift key. There are a few other keys that'll work. Take a look in the lilo.conf man page.

fancypiper · 09-26-2003, 04:33 PM

# How do I uninstall Linux completely and keep/use Windows only?
How to Remove Linux and Install Windows 2000
How to Remove Linux and Install Windows XP
You can remove lilo from the mbr with
/sbin/lilo -u
You can remove grub or lilo from the mbr by booting with a Windows 98 boot floppy (at the prompt, type fdisk /mbr), or by using the Windows XP Recovery Console or the Windows 2000 Recovery Console