I looked in the FAQ and elsewhere and found nothing on this. (Is this
the first time this has happened?)

I just installed Fedora 2 on my dual-boot WinXP system and selected for
GRUB _not_ to be installed, since I use Partition Commander, but when I
booted Linux (from the Partition Commander start-up screen) I got a GRUB
prompt.

Three questions:

1) How do I get rid of/disable GRUB so that Partition Commander can boot
directly into Fedora and not GRUB?

I have Explore2fs on the WinXP side, so I can access all parts of the
Linux partition on my system. I've never actually used Explore2fs to write to
or delete stuff from the Linux partition, because I know how dangerous
that is, but since I'm looking at having to re-install the whole thing
anyway, what the hell.

Under /boot there are two folders, big as life: grub and lost+found.
The grub folder only contains one file: splash.xpm.gz.

Should I just delete that file?

2) If I can't get rid of GRUB, how do I boot to Fedora from
GRUB? I looked at the help function and read the relevant parts of TFM
online, but frankly it's above my head, unfortunately.

3) If neither of the above is possible, how can I modify Partition Commander to
ignore GRUB?

Currently, Partition Commander is booting to:

product: mbr_grub.dat
drive: mbr
primary 102MB
GNU GRUB version 0.94

I'm not sure how I would redirect GRUB, but the other Linux partitions
which are visible are a 10GB logical partition and a smaller logical one
which I assume is the swap partition.


Thanks in advance,

Marc Adler

I tried this question on another mailing list and got no response there,
either. Is this a problem without precedent? Or am I asking in the
wrong place?

Thanks in advance.

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On 2 Oct 2004 13:35:32 -0700, Marc Adler
<marc.adler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Under /boot there are two folders, big as life: grub and lost+found.
> The grub folder only contains one file: splash.xpm.gz.
>
> Should I just delete that file?
>
That file is just a splash screen.

> 2) If I can't get rid of GRUB, how do I boot to Fedora from
> GRUB? I looked at the help function and read the relevant parts of TFM
> online, but frankly it's above my head, unfortunately.
>
If Grub doesn't show a menu, try typing "boot".

> 3) If neither of the above is possible, how can I modify Partition
> Commander to ignore GRUB?
>
> Currently, Partition Commander is booting to:
>
> product: mbr_grub.dat
> drive: mbr
> primary 102MB
> GNU GRUB version 0.94
>
If Grub is on the MBR, where is Partition Commander installed?


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