GRUB help

[forceflow501]

so i had red hat 9 on my machine and that worked fine. i then tried to install slackware, after two aborted installs, i (thought i) installed slackware. when i rebooted it went past bios, and all that was on the screen was GRUB and a blinking _. then i tried to install knoppix. same thing. help?

[dylunio]

try seeing if there is anything of help in these two tutoirals by Nerderello:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-19999
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/top...tml&highlight=

dylunio

[forceflow501]

is their a way to do this without using a floppy? none of my machines have floppies except the machine i'm having trouble with. perhaps from the knoppix live cd? i am willing to do a reinstall of slackware or knoppix if nessary.

[dylunio]

You could see if you can burn a boot disk image onto a cd,
or you could take the floppy out of that comp and put it in another, create the floppy, then put the drive back into the origianal comp and then boot from it.

dylunio

[forceflow501]

you see i think the problem lies with that the grub is still point to red hat, and since it was their first, its overiding lilo. so what i really need is a way to remove/disable grub from knoppix.

[dylunio]

Let me get this straight,
you had RH9 with grub bootloader, then you tried to install Slackware, did you do this over RH9 or on a different partition?
Then you can't get to the grub screen (you get GRUB_)

dylunio

[forceflow501]

i tried to install slackware over RH9 after reformating the partition. at that point i did not realise what GRUB problem was so then i tried to install knoppix. and yes thats right. (by the way thanks for the help)

[dylunio]

If you boot up to Knoppix live cd command line and type

fdisk /mbr

that should get rid of grub so you can do a fresh install;

dylunio

[forceflow501]

unable to open mbr is the message i get.

[dylunio]

did you try it as root?

su 
fdisk /mbr