you want to get rid of the one you put in to config file. because you windows
partion is not on hda1, but is on hda. The bit of windows that boots is right
at the start of the drive.
BTW if you do what John siad, you will know longer be able to start linux. The
thing to do is read the help, that would be installed on your pc. It is on the
Doc section, it will tell you how to reconfig Grub. Personal I use lilo as it
is a lot easier to use.
Mark Hillary
"John I. Azeke" wrote:
> Try doing an
> c:>fdisk /mbr
> after booting your system into DOS with your Windows Startup disk.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liangyu Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] I made a mistake
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub
> provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked
> well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in
> DrakeConf->DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda to hda1. Now I know I
> should not set in this way, but I got a problem: The machine can only start
> linux, not windows even though the windows option is still in the Grub menu
> and even though I set the boot device back to hda.
>
> I am quite new to the Linux world and don't know how to get windows back,
> Could someone help me out?
>
> Liangyu
