On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:47, Stephen Cradock wrote: > Then, as one does when playing with Linux, I went stark staring bonkers, and > decide to try Gentoo - a friend told me it was much easier to install. > Rather than make yet another partition, I wiped the Sarge partition and > installed Gentoo there, from a CD. That went OK, but also failed to detect > my ethernet card. So it's back to Windows to go online to find out what to > do next - URGGGH - Grub failed, of course - I had wiped out menu.lst when I > deleted Sarge. So I couldn't get into Windows, or online with Gentoo..... > > Now I want to remove Grub - it has gone and installed itself in my MBR, and > I don't know how to get it out. Any help?
Well, your machine won't boot from the hard-drive unless the MBR holds code that points to *some* bootloader *somewhere*. So you'll need one of Grub, LILO or the Windows bootloader installed. Doesn't the Gentoo install process complete, even if it can't find your network card? As long as it installs a base system, it should install Grub or LILO, and set up the appropriate config to allow you to boot either Gentoo or Windows. Or is the Gentoo install really a network-based install, without even a base OS on the install CD? I presume that your Windows install disks are capable of rewriting the MBR to point to the Windows bootloader on your Windows partition, by selecting a "repair" option. Another option is to reinstall a basic Sarge system. I think it should be possible to use the Sarge disks as a "rescue" CD (or download and burn a real "rescue" CD). You can then boot from the CD to a basic linux OS, reformat a partition as ext2 or similar, and install *just* grub on that partition. At that point, rebooting should give you a grub menu with just one option: windows. But if you're going to do that, you may as well reinstall the Windows bootloader. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
