I've used this to remove lilo, which should also work for grub
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
The thing placed after
or
will exec. bootsector of the active partition and this will do nothing: so anyway you will not can install WinXP after that because NT-installer puts partition bootsector, but does not rewrite MBR.
ok so i have two HDs on my PC, on the 1st one (master) i have w2k running, i decided to install debian on the second (slave). During the install, i was asked if i wanted to install grub, i said yes.
Now debian starts just fine. Windows on the hand now takes forever to load (ie like two minutes... (4 Replies)
in dual os grub will ask like this (linux 9 (red hat))
linux(bigmem)
linux(smallmem)
dos
so i want that grub will ask like this
dos
linux(bigmem)
linux(smallmem)
how to do this (8 Replies)
Hi, I installed solaris 10 a few weeks ago. It was working fine during the past two weeks. However, now when I start to load to the drive, I get this problem:
The BIOS screen comes up like normal, then screen goes blank and a message "Grub loading stage 2" flashes real quick then the computer... (1 Reply)
When I boot up with the first install disk I get this error message...
ERROR:28 Selected item cannot fit into memory
I've read alot of information about this being a bug with the GRUB loader and several people's posts about getting around this by using Solaris Express instead.
Does anyone... (6 Replies)
i was dual booting vista and ubuntu but i have now taken off vista. however the microsoft bootloader is still in the list. how do i get rid of it and automatically boot into ubuntu? (13 Replies)
hi , was using solaris in dual boot with xp , then I ' ve installed ubuntu too . The solaris grub has been in some way damaged , maybe because during the linux installation i've delete an old partition that I was not using by some months. It's normal that the solaris grub has been overriden by... (7 Replies)
Hi,
Can we specify which grub.conf to use while installing grub on RHEL.
We are working on application which requires different grub configurations needed, depending on certain criteria we need to update grub with correct grub.conf.
Can we use grub-install for this purpose? (4 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I am having trouble of understanding the concept of GRUB bootloader in Linux.
My questions are-:
Do we install GRUB first and then install Linux ?
Does GRUB act as a bootloader for Windows if we are trying to dual boot Windows and Linux ? Or does GRUB load the Windows... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sreyan32
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
grub
GRUB(8) FSF GRUB(8)NAME
grub - the grub shell
SYNOPSIS
grub [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
Enter the GRand Unified Bootloader command shell.
--batch
turn on batch mode for non-interactive use
--boot-drive=DRIVE
specify stage2 boot_drive [default=0x0]
--config-file=FILE
specify stage2 config_file [default=/boot/grub/menu.lst]
--device-map=FILE
use the device map file FILE
--help display this message and exit
--hold wait until a debugger will attach
--install-partition=PAR
specify stage2 install_partition [default=0x20000]
--no-config-file
do not use the config file
--no-curses
do not use curses
--no-floppy
do not probe any floppy drive
--no-pager
do not use internal pager
--preset-menu
use the preset menu
--probe-second-floppy
probe the second floppy drive
--read-only
do not write anything to devices
--verbose
print verbose messages
--version
print version information and exit
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.
SEE ALSO update-grub(8), grub-install(8).
The full documentation for grub is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package. If the info and grub programs are prop-
erly installed at your site, the command
info grub
should give you access to the complete manual.
grub (GNU GRUB 0.97) January 2013 GRUB(8)