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Hi all; yesterday I tried to remove Caldera technology preview from
my system and install redhat.  The redhat install aborted (my
mistake) and now when I reboot I get this "grub" prompt and can't
get any further.

Can anybody point me to a * tutorial on Grub?

Quick overview of my situation:  I may no longer have a bootable
linux partition.  I should have a bootable windoze partition.  My
computer won't boot from CD and I lost the floppy drive, so if
I can't make the computer boot from hard disk again, I'm going to
have some real contortions ahead of me.

Fooey, I say.  LILO may have been ugly, and a bastard to configure
for newbies, but at least it *worked*.

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Quote:>Hi all; yesterday I tried to remove Caldera technology preview from
>my system and install redhat.  The redhat install aborted (my
>mistake) and now when I reboot I get this "grub" prompt and can't
>get any further.

>Can anybody point me to a * tutorial on Grub?

Try:

  http://www.veryComputer.com/
  http://www.veryComputer.com/

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If I had mayonnaise I'd be dangerous.

The issue with grub I believe is that lilo sees this as an mbr it cannot
write to.  I have seen running lilo fail repeatedly on a drive with grub
installed in the mbr.  Grub can boot a system without being installed in the
mbr; but thats another question.

Try getting a bootable dos floppy, put on it fdisk and format.com.  Now boot
the dos floppy and try to fdisk /mbr the grub stuff away.  You can also edit
the boot record directly and remove it using debug or whatever.  

I have seen this method work on some recent work I have done with IBM.

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Quote:>Hi all; yesterday I tried to remove Caldera technology preview from
>my system and install redhat.  The redhat install aborted (my
>mistake) and now when I reboot I get this "grub" prompt and can't
>get any further.

A bit more web browsing found the answer.  The commands I was
looking for were:

        chainloader (hd0,0)+1
        boot

My, how very obvious.  Not.

At least I got my machine back up, with another OS installed now.

Between the eight-hour install procedure, and this POS booter,
and the broken x86 config, I'm never touching Caldera again.

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Quote:>Download Tom's Root Boot and get yourself a bootable single floppy version of
>linux and see if you cannot get something salvagable that way.

Unfortunately, I have no floppy drive (gave the laptop to someone
else who now can't find it.  Or the install disks.)

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This was what I was looking for.  Thanx!

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I have bootable floppies.  I even studied the art of making rescue
disks once.  Only helps if you haven't lost the floppy drive though.

Thanx anyway.  I eventually found an FAQ on the Caldera page that
told me the magic command to give to GRUB.  From there I was able
to boot to my Windoze partition and save the day.

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Quote:>A bit more web browsing found the answer.  The commands I was
>looking for were:

>    chainloader (hd0,0)+1
>    boot

>My, how very obvious.  Not.

>At least I got my machine back up, with another OS installed now.

>Between the eight-hour install procedure, and this POS booter,
>and the broken x86 config, I'm never touching Caldera again.

Actually, I have to admit to rather liking GRUB. I'm prepared to believe
Caldera didn't set it up amazingly well, but being able to configure
everything at the grub> prompt sure beats the hell out of rebooting and
editing /etc/lilo.conf all the time, especially if you play with weird
operating systems.

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"Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy."

Perhaps if you had bothered to read all of the documentation before
plunging in you wouldn't have run into these problems in the first
place.

You were most certainly doing ALOT wrong if it took 8 hours to install
COL. I've done it many times and the longest that it ever took was an
hour on an old 486 with 32MB of RAM.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with GRUB, its just not LILO.  Don't
read the docs, which you ended up finding when you made the effort, and
of course its confusing as all hell.

I haven't the foggiest clue what you seem to think is broken with
xf86config, XF86Setup or lizardx.  They all work as advertised, assuming
that you know what it is you're trying to do.  The first 2 are standard
with ALL linux distro's that use XFree86 for an X server, so you'll
never escape them if you plan to use linux again.

So, it seems that the biggest problem here is between the keyboard &
chair.  Maybe you should try Corel Linux.  I hear that they've dumbed it
down enough to the point where its just about as inflexible and
miserable to use as M$ windoze.

A win-win solution for everyone :-)

Cheers DaveH.