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[William Davis]

I tried to use grub4dos to make my USB bootable but I didnt succeed. although I installed the grubinst.exe in my windows XP the program grubinst_gui.exe didnt function properly.
Now I am getting the following message when I boot:

Try (hd0,0): NTFS5: No GRLDR
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No GRLDR
Try (hd0,2): None MS: skip
Try (hd0,3): Extended
Try (hd0,4): NTFS5: No GRLDR
Try (hd0,5): Extended
Try (fd0): invalid or null

Cant find GRLDR
Press space bar to hold screen, any other key to boot MBR

How do I get rid of this message (and uninstall Grub)?
Is the grub good for anything else other than booting from USB?

[Sha0]

Perhaps you accidentally overwrote the internal HDD's MBR? If so, you could potentially use DOS' FDISK /MBR command or the Recovery Console's FIXMBR command to put a "nice" one back in place. The partition table should remain intact from both of these methods.

[William Davis]

If this happened it must be by the grub4dos without my knowledge. The command fdsk/mbr is automatic or interactive? and it doesnt wipe out the whole HD?

[steve6375]

Or you could copy grldr file to your hard disk and add a menu.lst file to the same partition.

Then you could create a menu in the menu.lst file to boot to any partition - e.g. for the first partition which presumably has XP on it...

title Boot to XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader /ntldr

Next time use RMPrepUSB to install grub4dos onto a USB device!

[Sha0]

The command fdsk/mbr is automatic or interactive?

Automatic. And it's MS-DOS, please remember. Not a Windows cmd.exe window.

and it doesnt wipe out the whole HD?

The partition table should remain intact from both of these methods.

No, they only write boot code to the MBR. That is a handful of bytes in a single sector: the first sector.

[William Davis]

Ok, now this grub4dos boots the USB with DOS? I can already boot with DOS through other method. What if I want to boot the USB with Linux?

[steve6375]

http://sites.google....orials/grub4dos

[Sha0]

Ok, now this grub4dos boots the USB with DOS? I can already boot with DOS through other method. What if I want to boot the USB with Linux?

Which installation was broken originally? The USB or the internal HDD? I got the impression that is was your internal HDD that accidentally got GRUB4DOS installed.

I tried to use grub4dos to make my USB bootable but I didnt succeed. although I installed the grubinst.exe in my windows XP

"windows xp" on where? Sorry, I'm confused.

[William Davis]

I initially got grubinst.exe along with grub4dos and I clicked on it. It installed itself on my computer (with WinXP). I was thinking it will install something on the USB automatically to make it bootable but obviously this didnt happen. I started getting that funny message on booting. That is why I wanted to get rid of the message on booting. Now I want to make USB bootable with Linux. I understand that grub4dos will do that by using RMPrepUSB right?. Please verify this point.

[William Davis]

I booted from Win 98 Cd and entered the command fdisk/mbr but I got a "bad command or file name".

[Wonko the Sane]

I booted from Win 98 Cd and entered the command fdisk/mbr but I got a "bad command or file name".

It's fdisk[SPACE]/mbr

BEFORE that, just type:

fdisk /?

[ENTER]
and yes there is a space between the "k" and the "/" in the above.


Wonko

[William Davis]

It's fdisk[SPACE]/mbr

BEFORE that, just type:

fdisk /?

[ENTER]
and yes there is a space between the "k" and the "/" in the above.


Wonko

YES now that worked. Thanks