It's done! I used install-mbr, thanks Martin! I would have used fixmbr from windows, but the all users had a password and I couldn't do anything (maybe I could have asked for it, but that would be no fun :P)
Thanks to all On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 09:14, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:27:02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> > Guido says his goal is to remove Debian from the computer and enable > >> > it to boot without it. > >> > >> That's what I thought but I prefer to have a confirmation for this > >> point. > > > > Guido's words are quite clear. > > Not for me and that's what I asked him. > > I'm missing some information that can interfer with the proceedings, for > instance: > > 1/ Is the OP going to install another linux on the system in a future? > 2/ Is the OP reaching GRUB's menu? > > >> >> You have deleted/formatted your Debian partitions. Fine. Then you > >> >> reinstalled it (? - this was not needed at all). > >> > > >> > Incorrect. It was needed. > >> > >> (...) > >> > >> Not at all. You can do many things to get GRUB removed (fixmbr) or > >> windows booted (using SDG) without needing to install Debian again. > > > > Incorrect. > > (...) > > Bob, Windows can be booted by many means, as I already told you, so you > don't need to install a linux system to make it bootable again. > > > For one at least some MS machines, and I daresay many of them, do not > > include the necessary tools to repair themselves. In which case it is > > not possible to find a working fixmbr program by booting the windows > > system even if you use a 3rd party boot media such as SuperGrubDisk or > > Debian to boot it. > > How is that? > > SGD can boot windows directly. There are another LiveCD bootloaders that > can do the job (Plop). In addition, you can download any linux LiveCD and > select the option "Boot current installed system". You can run any linux > LiveCD of your choice and restore windows bootloader by using "ms-sys" > utility. You can even install GRUB in a floppy disk and boot windows from > there. You're plenty of options. > > > Secondly the problem was that the windows system would not boot without > > some 3rd party boot media. > > Of course, but that does not mean the user has to install a full linux > again. > > > If you can't use the system then you can't use the system to find out > > that even if you can boot it that the tools needed (fixmbr, bootrec, > > others) are not included there. Using Debian was just one of many > > possible 3rd party boot media options. But it was an available one. > > Bob, did you realize the OP sent a message to this mailing list? Which > means he has access to another computer and can work from there to search > for docs and download the things he needs for booting windows ;-) > > > Of course there are other options to reinstalling Debian. > > Ah, glad to hear that. In fact, that's what I said. > > > But if you have no other boot media in your hand but do have a Debian > > install disk in your hand then installing Debian again seems a very > > obvious course of action. > > It can be "obvious" for someone (you, the OP?) but not for me. I would > have done another thing and that's why I said installing debian again was > not needed at all, that there are another options to get a bootable > system. > > > It often works out well as a rescue disk. You might wish you had > > another more appropriate to the task boot media available but if you > > don't then it doesn't matter. You end up using what you have > > available. It is just another 3rd party boot disk at that point. > > It is always a good idea to have a copy of SGD on a CD. I do have it, BTW. > > > Were there other options available? Of course there were. The universe > > is filled with a very large number of possibilities. > > Well, that's what I said (!?). > > > I think what Guido did was perfectly reasonable given the circumstances. > > I didn't say Guido did it the wrong way. What makes you think so? > > > P.S. I think you meant to say SuperGrubDisk there instead of SDG. Or > > perhaps I mean to say that I have no idea what SDG might be otherwise. > > SuperGrubDisk = SGD, if I wrote SDG it was, of course, a typo. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jec1aj$tvi$4...@dough.gmane.org > >
