CentOS - Mar 2007 - removed centos from dual boot laptop (now having trouble booting)

HI all,

I had centos on a laptop (dual boot xp).
I am giving the laptop to another person so I removed centos.
Now when I reboot grub is confused...

I tried to manually enter
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

This does boot into XP but how do I tell grub that this is the new rules and
do this everytime at boot.

Thanks,

Jerry

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 at 8:50am, Jerry Geis wrote
> I had centos on a laptop (dual boot xp).
> I am giving the laptop to another person so I removed centos.
> Now when I reboot grub is confused...
>
> I tried to manually enter
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> boot
>
> This does boot into XP but how do I tell grub that this is the new rules
and
> do this everytime at boot.
I'm assuming by "removed centos" you mean you blew away all the
Linux
partitions, including the one holding grub's config file.  That being the 
case, you have 2 options:

1) Restore 1 minimal partition (where grub expects the root partition to
    be) and put a minimal grub.conf there, or

2) Boot from an XP disk, go into rescue mode, and put XP's boot loader
    back into the MBR.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

i think that you can also use software that permit you to put xp's partition
to be bootable:
1.DOS fdisk
2. Debian(only put xp's partition to be bootable and you can stop your
installation).



 		
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