Re: Where to go for help?

[Titus Winters]

Your grub menu config file was residing on one of the linux partitions you
deleted, so now grub doesn't have the nice menu.  But fear not, it's pretty
easy to boot by hand until you can replace the menu file (which could be
a bit of a process.)  

The commands you want are "rootnoverify" and "chainloader."  Rootnoverify takes
a partition and tells grub to focus on that partition without trying to look
at the filesystem on it.  Chainloader tells grub to boot what is in the boot
sector of that partition.  So if your windows partition was the first thing
on your first IDE drive, you would do:

rootnoverify (hd0,0) <- (hd0,0) cause the first ide drive is hd0 and the first
                        partition is partition 0
chainloader +1
boot

and windows should come up right away.  

If windows wasn't the first partition, or you don't know what number it 
was, try going sequentially through partition numbers until it boots.

Hope that helps.

-Titus

On (06/21 15:46), Dane Ensign wrote:
> Please excuse me if this is the incorrect list to email to, for my problem 
> with GRUB 0.90 .
> 
> Here is my problem. I have a dual boot laptop for redhat 7.2 and 
> windows2000. Im using grub and its worked great. I deleted my linux 
> partitions and created one big windows partition, for work apps. when I 
> rebooted, I get the GRUB prompt. I dont know what I can do to get my 
> windows2000 to boot up. I typed help but I just dont know enough about 
> controling GRUB to figure out what I need to do.
> 
> THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP THAT YOU CAN OFFER!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Dane
> 
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