[Sussex] MBR problems

Angelo Servini Angelo.Servini at claybrook.co.uk
Thu Mar 17 12:47:57 UTC 2005


Thanks to both Ritchie and Steve for their prompt answers.

<snip: Ritchie Jarvis wrote>
>
>1. Boot a linux recuse disk on your machine, chroot into your / 
>partition, and then reinitialise grub (I believe the command is 
>grub-install)
>
>2. Boot a Windoze rescue disk in the machine, and type fdisk /mbr at the 
>prompt, that should install a Windoze MBR for you, and remove grub.
>
</snip>

Cheers


<rant>
ps. Geoff, you can't win everybody by bulldozing them into using Linux.  I still remain a solid fan of Linux and it is still the superior OS IMHO.  

However, I thought, OSS was all about choice?

I may yet put both on her PC as a dual boot. <grin>
</rant>


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