[LUGSB] How to get rid of Linux GASP!

[Thomas Levine]

You can also use dd to get rid of the mbr. I don't remember the command.

The simplest way, however, is to use Windoze: fdisk \mbr. I don't see why 
you'd need to do this except if you want to install Windoze, so this way 
makes sense.

2005/5/6, Vinay Pai <vinay at cs.sunysb.edu>:
> 
> Well you cant "delete" the bootloader, unless you don't want your
> computer to be able to boot. You need to use the facility in whatever
> other OS you're trying to boot to write its MBR. I know there was a way
> to do it in Win2k by booting into recovery mode from the CD and going to
> the console... don't remember details though.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 02:39 +0000, nishah wrote:
> > Need to get rid of it on one PC. Get the following problems.
> >
> > GRUB version 0.93 (639K lower/390912K upper memory)
> >
> > [Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
> > list possible command completions.
> > Anywhere else TAB list the possible completions of a device/file name.]
> >
> > grub>_
> >
> > then if i press tab it gives me a list of commands of which none work
> > because all linux info is gone except GRUB (boot loader)
> >
> > we put fdisk on a bootdisk but it wont delete the boot loader of linux,
> > so we'd like to know how to get rid of Grub
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