How to remove Linux boot entry?

Originally Posted by Snowknight

Mandrake/Mandriva does use GRUB, albeit a fancy one at that. (At least, it did when I used it.)

I think they switched to GRUB at 10.0. 9.0 and 9.1 were LILO. Either way, the FIXMBR and fdisk /mbr reccomendations were spot on.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

fdisk /mbr and fixmbr do the same thing. Either one will work on an XP system.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Duminas

Ah. I was under the impression that, since DOS can't read NTFS, it won't know about the drive's existence if all partitions under it were of that type.

This assumption would then be incorrect?

fdisk /mbr doesn't touch your partitions. It just wipes the Master Boot Record.

And for the record, it's DOS, not FDISK, that can't handle NTFS. NTFS is just one way of formatting a Windows Partition. Sort of like how you can format a partition of type 83 (Linux) in ext2, ext3, reiser3, reiser4, xfs, jfs, or a variety of file systems. fdisk doesn't care how it's formatted.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.