On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:09:07 +0200 "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some information what I've used to remove GRUB from MBR. In windows > (don't beat me) there are tools 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' and Ive used > them. You could try 'fdisk /mbr' from windows command line. That should replace your MBR with one which simply passess boot process off to the active partition, which is -- i believe -- how windows does it. But, read on.
> Probably last question: When I've tried to set the recovery partition > 'active' in fdisk, the system still boots from the GRUB and not from > the 'active' partition ... I think I've did it wrong, did I? The boot process from a hard drive looks something like Power button -> BIOS -> mbr boot -> partition boot -> OS init. chances are that GRUB is on the mbr so the recovery partition's boot record is never used. Have you considered using GRUB to boot the partition like you would a windows partition? that would look something like | # boot this partition's boot record | rootnoverify (hd0,2) # corresponds to 1st hard drive ,3rd partition. | # set to your recovery partition instead. | makeactive | chainloader +1 that, I think, will do about the same thing as 'fdisk /mbr' from windoze but avoids the hosing of GRUB, which is actually a wonderfully flexible and useful bootloader compared to the 'active partition' scheme of windoze. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
