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# 1  
Old 09-19-2005
How to uninstall grub
hai,
i have a problem. i installed RHEL 4. The system got hanged during installation.so now i want to install Windows XP. when i boot from cd i am getting grub> prompt. so i want to remove grub from MBR.
And i am having 128MB RAM.whether it is recommended for installation for RHEL4.

Give me a solution for removing grub

Thanks in advance for any help
Last edited by chinnappa; 09-19-2005 at 08:42 AM..
# 2  
Old 09-19-2005
Code:
fdisk /mbr

from DOS



or


Code:
fixmbr

from Windows Recovery Console
# 3  
Old 09-24-2005
I've used this to remove lilo, which should also work for grub


dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
# 4  
Old 09-25-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by locustfurnace
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
Code:
fdisk /mbr

or
Code:
fixmbr

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.
# 5  
Old 10-14-2005
1:进入单用户Smilie进入方法,用启动光盘引导,后进入恢复模式)
2:进入配置文件,(位置一般在,/etc/grub.conf)
3:大概的样子是这样的
RedHat linux (2.4.7-10)
　　　　root (hd0，1)
　　　　kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2 1
4:用命令fdisk -l 查看你的分区形式
5:重新写grub.conf
# 6  
Old 10-14-2005
zhenyuan1125, please read our rules and note:
(9) Edit your posts if you see spelling or grammar errors (don't write in cyberchat or cyberpunk style). English only.
# 7  
Old 10-14-2005
Those are Chinese glyphs. On my PC at least. He must have cut & pasted something from his own PC. I don't think he's using cyberchat at all.
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