On Tue, 15 May 2007 08:51:25 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:12:02PM +0800, Mr. Ray Chan wrote:
> > 1. Use a Win98 startup disk to start the system;
> > 2. After your saw the prompt, use command "FDISK /MBR";
> > 3. Done.
>
> but that means if he wants to install another OS on that system, he'll
> have to reinstall GRUB.
>
> much better to just set up GRUB to automatically boot the windows
> partition after a fairly short (say 5 secs) delay. This will allow you
> enough time to boot a different system manually if you want, but your
> windows users will hardly notive the grub menu appearing before it
> times out and boots windows automatically.
>
> A
>
No. Since grub is on the debian hard drive, it will not be found and the
computer won't be bootable at all. fdisk /mbr will solve the problem.
If he REALLY wants to start a standalone win98 with grub, he can make a
small partition for a minimal distro with the sole purpose of starting
grub, but this wouldn't make any sense.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] さんは書きました:
> > > Debian users,
> > >
> > > I have a machine with two disks. /dev/hda has
> > > Windows 98; /dev/hdb has Debian Etch. Grub
> > > starts either system. The root partition for
> > > Grub is in Debian, (hd1,0).
> > >
> > > I want to move the Debian drive to another
> > > machine and leave the Windows disk in working
> > > order. Reinstalling Grub on the Debian disk
> > > in its new home is easy.
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me how to arrange for the Windows
> > > system to start after the Debian disk is gone?
> > >
> > > Thanks, ... Peter
> >
> >
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