John,
You should be able to FDISK /MBR this will eliminate the Linux Boot Loader
(grub)
>From there, you can use a NT CDROM to reinstall/repair your system. You
don't always need the ERD to fix NT problems things like boot errors are
easily fixed with just the CD.
A little note on lilo and grub... from my experience, they still don't
support NTFS. So if you have NTFS, don't modify your boot sector. There is
a command 'dd' which will dump your boot info to file. You can then copy to
floppy, boot to NT, copy to C drive, and add to your boot.ini
If you need more info, please email me.
John - be happy to give you more details on repairing without disks, if you
want them... I have done this myself too <sheepish grin>.
-JD-
jeffdickman(AT)home.com
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Slezak
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:44 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [newbie] Hosed my system
Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to
what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install mandrake 7.2 on my system
that has 2 hdds with 3 paritions on each. The last parition on both hdd's
was a software raid 0 from NT. The first 2 paritions on each hdd had a copy
of NT 4 that I was duel booting between (acutally one was a backup copy just
in case). So I had 3G of free hdd space on the second hdd, with the boot
loader on the 1st hdd, ( so at worst I thought nothing would affect the 1st
hdd). So in this free space is where I mounted the swap and system linux
parition. And here is where I think I might of screwed up. I formated the
linux parition with ext2. From the install guide it said I would eventually
be given the choice to rewrite the mbr or if there was another boot loader
then you can choose to install some boot files to the first sector of the
boot parition. Then you can just add an entry in the boot loader for linux.
Well this step never came up, it went ahead and just installed the
lilo/grub. And from there linux is fine but I haven't been able to get back
into NT( and of course I spaced making a recovery disk) My next step was
just to reinstall NT back into the first parition on the first hdd but
basically NT wasn't able to work with my drives anymore to reinstall NT. So
here is where I need help, as far as I can tell I need to go thru the linux
install and wipe out everything on my drives, exit, then reinstall NT then
try reinstalling linux using some other file system than ext2?
