lorenzo.sandini(a)pp.inet.fi wrote:
Moving my FC4 install to a bigger machine, and recycling the old
computer to
be a windows xp desktop computer.
Booted from the WinXP CD, formatted the whole drive, and hoped the MBR would
be overwritten and clean, but it is not.
On reboot, I am offerend to choose between Win XP and "former OS", which
obviously needs nowhere.
fdisk /mbr doesn't do a thing. How can I get rid of the reference to the
former OS in the boot menu ? I know I can edit the boot.ini, but is there any
trace of FC4 on the HDD that needs to be cleared ?
You're using all of the disk for Windows? (You can check in Disk
Manager.)
You can boot properly into Windows XP?
It doesn't sound like this is Grub's MBR: it sounds like it's an entry
in boot.ini.
To be honest, there's nowhere else for Fedora to hide.
Go ahead and (carefully) edit boot.ini.
Hope this helps,
James.
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