Fwd: How to remove GRUB

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 13:57:33 UTC 2012


SOLVED (see below)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> On 04/27/2012 10:13 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>>
>> Also requires a CD.  If I still have it, I don't know where it is. I'm
>> pretty sure Dell does not supply the M$ CD, and GRUB won't boot the
>> recovery partition that is on the machine, possibly because of
>> repartitioning.
>>
>
> This usually works with most modern recovery partitions.  You'll need a
> linux boot cd.
>
> With a partition editor of your choice, mark your recovery partition as the
> boot partition.
>
> Install and old style dos mbr.  There is probably a mbr only utility now
> that will do this, but I've always used Lilo (which is on my rescue CD)
>
> lilo -M /dev/sda
>
> *note* this will break grub.  If the rescue partition does not work, or was
> not made to be bootable, this will render the system unbootable.

I found a MS Vista repair disk iso online.  The earlier instructions
for the os installation disk also worked on this disk.  My system now
boots without GRUB.  I'll use a live disk to remove all traces of
Ubuntu.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD




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