Re: GRUB question

From: Ko Fei Pu (kfpu_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/03/03 

Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:43:05 GMT

My machine has Windows boot loader in the MBR, how can I change it to
GRUB? I have only 2 OS, Windows 2K and Linux, so it should be fine by
using GRUB as the main boot loader.

Thanks

Mark wrote:
> Ko Fei Pu wrote:
>
>
>>Greetins all:
>>I have a dual boot machine with W2K & RH 9, W2K is in my MBR, so when I
>>boot the computer W2K boots first, during the Linux install, I made a
>>mistake and installed GRUB, now every time I tried to go to Linux, the
>>GRUB booter comes up, is there anyway that I can remove GRUB withou
>>damaging my install? If not how can I change the GRUB default entry
>>(right now is pointing to W2K)?
>>
>>I'm a newbie so please bear with me, any comment or suggestion is much
>>appreciated.
>
>
> In order to dual-boot both Windows and Linux, GRUB needs to be in your MBR.
> It acts as the boot loader for both operating systems and is
> OS-independent. If you triple-boot 2 Windows Os's and Linux, then GRUB will
> load the Windows Boot Loader if you select the Windows option, then you can
> choose the Windows OS. If you want to remove GRUB from the MBR (and I don't
> know why you would if you really want Windows & Linux,) then you'll have to
> boot with the Win 2k install disk and use the repair utility to repair the
> MBR.
>
> The other replies about the Windows section in grub.conf and selecting the
> default OS are what work for me.
>
> Mark

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