Thanks to all those 2009/2/18 Mithun Bhattacharya <inz...@yahoo.com>: [snipped....] >> (4.) SuSE has loaded Grub on /dev/sda3 (which is extended partition) >> and make it active. So now if I want to get rid of Linux completely I >> can just use fdisk and switch the active partition to /dev/sda1 and >> Vista will start booting. Any idea if Fedora 10, Ubuntu or Debian can >> be made to do the similar thing. I think they all change the MBR so >> its not easy to remove grub just in case I want to remove that. > > fdisk is not unique to SUSE - all of them have it. Do note fdisk is not > removing linux it is just making your windows partition active > which still wont matter because grub is going to boot irrespective of what > your partition says. You would have to overwrite your MBR > with a Vista boot loader and ofcourse format your linux partition and return > it back to windows - unless you dont care about that > space or want to go back to Linux later.
Perhaps I was not able to explain this properly. I already know what you wrote. Its the location of GRUB. I don't want GRUB to touch the MBR and leave it as it is. Unless I am horribly wrong, I think when GRUB is loaded in MBR it does not matter what your active (or bootable) partition is. Whereas in my last OpenSuSe installation (I think 10.2 or so), I remember just switch off the boot flag of linux partition and setting the boot flag on windows to on using fdisk helped me boot directly into windows Xp without showing GRUB menu. Doing this effectively rendered the SuSe installation useless as you cant boot into it. When I toggled the boot flags in the partition table again, Grub menu starts showing again. This shows that OpenSuSe loaded GRUB not on MBR but on the linux partition. Again in my experience, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian by default loads GRUB on MBR. What I meant to ask was, during installation how do I change GRUB location in other linux distros. Regards. -- Ajitabh Pandey http://www.ajitabhpandey.info/ | http://www.unixclinic.net/ ICQ - 150615062 Registered Linux User - 240748 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
