RE: Grub on mbr without Linux

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Oops,

that implies that you have grub both in the MBR and
in the boot sector of your Win95 partition.

Did you save the Win95 boot sector before installing
Grub ?

If not, you'll have some problem. I do not know how to
reinstall the Win95 boot sector in the partition, it
might work, but no promises, to do a fdisk /MBR on
that partition (but this will shurely erase Grub from
the MBR), or boot a Win95 rescue floppy and do a sys C:

I guess you did some 

root (hd0,0)
install (hd0,0)

which installs Grub in the boot sector of your Win95
partition.

I think you wanted:

root (hd0,0)
install (hd0)


I have several systems without Linux but multi-booting
via Grub.

Grub sits on a VFAT partition containing DOS 7 - although
M$ never sold it separately. I currently do not know an
alternative, which understands long file names, which I 
do not want to miss.

regards
--
        Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
        Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gadya" <address@hidden>
> To: "Jeff Sheinberg" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Grub on mbr without Linux
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > I have succeeded in installing grub on the MBR and using 
> grub to load
> win95
> > without  having Linux on the PC.
> >
> > However, I also tried as an alternative to install Grub on the win95
> > partition boot sector and got this interesting result. Grub 
> brought up the
> > Grub menu which contained an entry for the 95 partition but when I
> selected
> > and booted that partition the Grub menu appeared again - an 
> endless loop.
> >
> > the Grub entry was:
> > rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > I assume the problem is that the blocklist address points 
> to the partition
> > boot record which has itself been modified by Grub to bring 
> up the initial
> > menu. I have tried 1+1 and other values but they do not work.
> >
> > I can restore the partition boot record and boot without 
> Grub or I can
> > install Grub to the MBR, but there must be a simple solution to the
> problem
> > of installing in the partition on the Boot record.
> >
> > Victor
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jeff Sheinberg" <address@hidden>
> > To: "victor sperber" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: Grub on mbr without Linux
> >
> >
> > > victor sperber writes:
> > >
> > >  > I use the grub loader which came with Red Hat Linux 7.2.  I now
> > >  > no longer use Linux.  Can I set up grub as a loader (on the
> > >  > mbr) on a PC which has no Linux installed? If so, how?
> > >  >
> > >
> > > 1. Please don't send any HTML to this mailing list.
> > >
> > > 2. Check the grub archives, I already answered this question.
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Jeff Sheinberg
> > >
> > >
> > >
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