[Wolves] grub2 remove an embedded config

Peter Cannon dick_turpin at archlinux.us
Fri Jan 13 08:50:10 UTC 2012


On 12/01/12 21:04, Adam Sweet wrote:
> On 11/01/12 12:55, Re-LoaD wrote:
>> Hi,
>> anyone know how to remove an embedded grub config file from the mbr.
>
> Bit confused about what you mean Re-LoaD. I haven't really spent any 
> time messing with grub2 yet so I don't know if it does anything 
> special that I don't know about, but I think you mean how do you 
> remove grub from the mbr, presumably to reinstate booting into a 
> Windows installation without grub being involved.
>
> In the old Win 9x days you used a DOS boot floppy and did something like:
>
> format /mbr
>
> In the WinXP days you booted to the install CD recovery console did 
> either:
>
> fixboot
>
> or
>
> fixmbr
>
> I forget which.
>
> I've not really used Windows since XP, so I'm not sure what you do for 
> Vista/7.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam Sweet
>

fdisk /mbr



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