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OmnificienT
August 23rd, 2008, 02:05 PM
Hello,
Does someone know which way I can remove Debian from my system, and then reinstall grub so that it will detect Kubuntu and Windows XP?
Thank You,
OmnificienT
Pumalite
August 23rd, 2008, 02:23 PM
Erase the partition and then reinstall Grub:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
OmnificienT
August 23rd, 2008, 03:48 PM
In this post I'll explain how I removed Debian and restored the MBR. I hope it might be useful to somebody as a tutorial/guide.
Everything was done from within an already installed Kubuntu 8.04 system.
These are the steps I took:
cat /proc/partitons
This gave me an indication of the disk and partition names.
Then I used Dolphin to go to system:/media/ and found my Debian drive there (you can click it to see what's on it). I rightclicked and pressed properties.
I looked at the Meta-info tab, and saw it was known to the system as /dev/sda3
Then I opened a console and did:
sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Then I pressed "p" to print the partition table. Here I could see /dev/sda3 as a Linux partiton.
Being sure I knew I had the proper drive I now continued. I pressed "d" to delete a partition. In this case it was the 3rd one, so I pressed 3 when it asked me which partition to delete.
The final step was to enter a "w" to write the changes.
The next step was fixing my MBR.
sudo grub
It takes a while to load. Then:
find /boot/grub/stage1
This will return a location. Enter whatever was returned here:
root (hd?,?)
Now install grub to the harddisk:
setup (hd?)
And finally:
quit
Then I rebooted the system and I was relieved to see grub asking me which operating system to load.
Thank you Pumalite and catlett.
caljohnsmith
August 23rd, 2008, 05:29 PM
setup grub
Is that possibly a typo, OmnificienT? I believe the correct command is:
grub> setup (hdX)
Where (hdX) would be (hd0) to install Grub to the MBR of the first HDD.
OmnificienT
August 24th, 2008, 01:18 PM
You were correct caljohnsmith, I fixed the typo. Thanks for the comment.
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