[NTLUG:Discuss] grub loader messing with my head

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 11:12 -0500, David Evans wrote:

> Okay here is a good one.
> fellow employee asked me to load suse 9.1 onto a usb external hd so he 
> would not have ot do anything to his xp home install. He has a compaq 
> presario 2100 laptop.
> 
> So I said yea we can do that..
> So the install goes well and everything works except his laptop will not 
> boot unless the usb external drive is hooked up to the computer. 
> Apparently suse changed the location of his master boot record and i 
> need to change it back so windowos will boot off of itself again without 
> the external hd.
> 
> is this making sense to anyone.
> 
> all of his windows is still intact but when I try to boot without the 
> usb drive hooked to it the boot all the screen displays is
> 
> 
> grub
> 
> help
> Has anybody done this like and wished they hadn't is so please help.
> 


see if you can boot up some sort of DOS boot cd ( win98 install for
example ) 
so you can run DOS's 
fdisk /mbr
on the drive. This will remove the grup boot loaded and replace it with
the 
dos one. 

Do a google search for fdisk mbr or see
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q69/0/13.ASP

jack