On Monday 14 January 2002 11:02 am, you wrote: > OK, here's what I did. > > My Windows 98SE crashed to the point where I couldn't do an emergency > backup of important files or even run win98 setup to restore the > corrupted system files. So I repartitioned and formatted my slave drive > which had RedHat 7.2 on it (I was running a dual boot) to an extended > DOS partition so I could backup Windows files to it (just some bookmark > files, Word documents, family photos, etc). Linux was actually unstable > at this point as well (kernel panic?), but I have backups of everything. > > I'm trying to rebuild my system from scratch now, but traces of grub > seem to be lingering around, even after I formatted my master hard drive > (the slave was also formatted as an extended DOS partition and contains > only my backup files). When I try to reinstall Win 98 (I've run setup > from both windows and MS-DOS), I get numerous errors regarding system > files, but I also get one that reads something like 'boot virus!' when I > run setup for windows. I went into the BIOS and turned off the boot > virus protection so that setup would run, but I still get tons of system > errors (.vxd, .dll, and stack errors). I've run Scandisk a number of > times with no errors as far as the hard drive goes, but various files > turn up missing or directory structure is screwed up somehow. > > Windows is now barely functional, extremely unstable, the boot virus > protection is still disabled, I can barely run Netscape in order to > write this e-mail, and I'm at a loss for what happened. > > I'm most likely overlooking something obvious, but... > How do I eliminate all traces of grub so I can start from scratch? > Was there an uninstall program for Linux that I missed? > What is kernel panic? I heard it mentioned on the list recently... > How can I load Linux so that it runs completely separate from Windows, > (ie. no bootloader, stability of one doesn't affect the other, etc.)? > Is this even the real problem?
It sounds like you need to reformat the windows partition. Do you have a boot floppy for linux? A nice partitioning program is parted. You can load the image to a floppy, and do partitioning things. You either need to use grub, or lilo, or boot from a floppy. Kernel panic means it cant load the OS. http://www.suse.de/en/support/howto/parted/ > > Hopefully some of you dual-booters out there may have run across this > before. > > Any help is appreciated, > > Thanks, JOEY. > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
