[followups set to comp.os.linux.setup]

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:53:28 GMT, Ko Fei Pu wrote:

> I have a dual boot machine with W2K & RH 9, W2K is in my MBR, so when I
> boot the computer W2K boots first, during the Linux install, I made a
> mistake and installed GRUB,

I did the same thing a few months ago. I didn't like it for the first few
minutes, but now I'm glad I did.

(I used to boot kernel 2.0.33 from the WinNT boot menu, a serious pain in
the ... .)

> now every time I tried to go to Linux, the
> GRUB booter comes up, is there anyway that I can remove GRUB withou
> damaging my install?

What do you mean by "[try] to go to Linux?" Is GRUB installed in the MBR?

"/sbin/lilo" will write a LILO bootstrap to the MBR, if you configure it to
do so. MS Windows' "fdisk /mbr" will write a Windows bootstrap to the MBR.
I wouldn't do either, myself.

> If not how can I change the GRUB default entry
> (right now is pointing to W2K)?

default 0 # replace '0' with the "number" of your desired boot entry

> I'm a newbie so please bear with me, any comment or suggestion is much
> appreciated.

It's trivial to boot W2K from GRUB. Is that what you want to do?

The best suggestions are

man grub
info grub

Jules Dubois wrote:
> [followups set to comp.os.linux.setup]
>
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:53:28 GMT, Ko Fei Pu wrote:
>
>
>>I have a dual boot machine with W2K & RH 9, W2K is in my MBR, so when I
>>boot the computer W2K boots first, during the Linux install, I made a
>>mistake and installed GRUB,
>
>
> I did the same thing a few months ago. I didn't like it for the first few
> minutes, but now I'm glad I did.
>
> (I used to boot kernel 2.0.33 from the WinNT boot menu, a serious pain in
> the ... .)
>
>
>>now every time I tried to go to Linux, the
>>GRUB booter comes up, is there anyway that I can remove GRUB withou
>>damaging my install?
>
>
> What do you mean by "[try] to go to Linux?" Is GRUB installed in the MBR?
>
> "/sbin/lilo" will write a LILO bootstrap to the MBR, if you configure it to
> do so. MS Windows' "fdisk /mbr" will write a Windows bootstrap to the MBR.
> I wouldn't do either, myself.
>
>
>>If not how can I change the GRUB default entry
>>(right now is pointing to W2K)?
>
>
> default 0 # replace '0' with the "number" of your desired boot entry
>
>
>>I'm a newbie so please bear with me, any comment or suggestion is much
>>appreciated.
>
>
> It's trivial to boot W2K from GRUB. Is that what you want to do?
>
> The best suggestions are
>
> man grub
> info grub
Based on the posting, it seems better to have GRUB installed in MBR and
boot w2k or linux from it, right now I have w2k installed in MBR and
GRUB installed on /boot directory, so when I want to boot linux, I have
to select linux from w2k boot loader, then select linux again from GRUB
boot loader, and I would like to remove the GRUB loader if it's possible
and won't damage my current installation.

TIA

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 05:39:27 GMT, in article <jeA5b.649$kW.235@edtnps84>,
Ko Fei Pu wrote:

>> The best suggestions are
>>
>> man grub
>> info grub
>>
> Based on the posting, it seems better to have GRUB installed in MBR and
> boot w2k or linux from it,

That's what I do, but what's better is what works better for you.

> right now I have w2k installed in MBR and
> GRUB installed on /boot directory,

I think you should reread the GRUB documentation. You have "GRUB files" in
your /boot directory, but

* the GRUB stage-1 boot loader is in the first sector (not a file) of
some partition; and
* if you're loading GRUB from W2K, there's a copy of that sector in
another file somewhere, and W2K's BOOT.INI specifies its location.

> so when I want to boot linux, I have
> to select linux from w2k boot loader,

To boot W2K, if you have GRUB in the MBR, you'll have to go through the W2K
boot menu. Unless you specify something like "timeout=0" in one or both
bootloaders, you'll have to navigate menus.

> I would like to remove the GRUB loader if it's possible
> and won't damage my current installation.

I'm only familiar with one way to boot Linux -- with a bootloader like LILO
or GRUB. There may be other ways, but LILO and GRUB have always worked for
me.