jpeters
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Posted: April 23 2006,08:16 |
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I'm also having problems with a frugal install. Question #1: How do I go back to zero, meaning getting rid of grub. I got an "error #17 booting without a CD, which prevents me from booting up my windows XP OS. For a while, it wouldn't even boot up my CD, because my computer kept crashing right after rebooting. Usually, if I take the battery out of my laptop and unplug it, it will clear RAM enough to load the CD. Grub hangs on in RAM until its last dying breath...a solid ten minutes after pulling all the plugs.
I attempted to do a frugal install in a newly formated partition that I created in Linux 83 format via Partition Magic. I already had a 16 MB hda1 backup partition in FAT format, hda2 being the remainder of my windows disk in NTFS. I created a 6 gig partition in Linux 83 format, hda3, and a 150 meg partition for swap files, hda4.
Since I'm only allowed 4 partitions, I attempted to place the image files in hda3, and the swap files in hda4. I was hoping that I could also use hda3 for other files in addition to the image files, while reserving hda4 for swap files. After the install, I removed the CD and it booted to windows instead of grub. I tried installing frugal again and got some message about no space being available on hda3. Next, I tried installing on hda4, the smaller partition. This worked, and I got a menu for selecting the resolution. Unfortunately, on reboot, I got "error #17".
Error #17 is the type that just sits there on your screen and stares at you. There's nothing else available except a hard crash, then try again. Booting with the CD, I attempted to reformat the new partitions (i.e., exterminate any data), but wasn't allowed because they're both being used.
How do I get rid of grub??
Thanks
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