Re: Removing Windows from Dual Boot

On 08/26/2010 10:41 AM, Terry Polzin wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:31 -0400, Weiner, Michael wrote:
I am sure this has been asked a number of times, and I am not finding
anything relevant using a google search, so I thought I would post my
query here. I have a user that owns a Dell Inspiron laptop, that has a
60G drive split in two, with Windows XP on the first partition, and
Fedora Core 7 on the second. Now, he decides he would like me to
remove Windows XP and make it a 100% linux laptop. Great, I think to
myself, a convert! Until I look at the way it is configured:



[root@leex ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda



Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 * 1 3470 27872743+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda2 3471 3483 104422+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda3 3484 7296 30627922+ 8e Linux LVM



[root@leex ~]# df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

28599044 22148476 4974372 82% /

/dev/sda2 101105 18631 77253 20% /boot

tmpfs 257416 0 257416 0% /dev/shm



And from /boot/grub/grub.conf

#boot=/dev/sda

default=0

timeout=5

splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

hiddenmenu

title Fedora Core 7

root (hd0,1)

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

initrd /initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img

title Microsoft Windows XP

rootnoverify (hd0,0)

chainloader +1



I find many tutorials showing how to uninstall Linux from the second
partition and return the machine back to the original XP
configuration, but none really documenting the process going the other
way (eg keeping linux and dumping xp). And I am not even sure it can
be done.



Has anyone done this? If so, is there some documentation that I can
sneak a peak at to help push me in the right direction?



Thanks in advance

Michael


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Well the first thing I would do would be to modify the grub.conf file
and comment out the lines that make windows an option to boot.

After a test boot that shows only linux as boot options in the grub
menu, I would remove the commented lines out of the grub.conf and boot
again.

Last thing to do would be to trash the windows partition, reformat that
as an LVM partition and add it to LVM as another logical volume.

Or just a regular non-lvm partition.


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