Removing Grub
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Jul 7 18:01:18 UTC 2006
Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> Extrapolating from an article in Windows Help: When Grub was installed
> it should have saved the original boot record somewhere; so if you tell
> Grub to remove its boot record it should reinstall that original one.
> The help article in question had to do with removing Lilo, so your
> mileage may vary.
>
One of the differences between Grub and Lilo is that Lilo creates a
backup file of the MBR when it is installed, and Grub does not. For
Lilo, the backups are /boot/boot.* files.
In any case, you are better off ether booting off a DOS boot disk
and using "fdisk /mbr" or booting off an XP CD and using fixmbr from
the recovery console.
Mikkel
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