[NTLUG:Discuss] Boot problem After Removal of GRUB

[Terry Henderson]

> Conclusions:
> GRUB altered something either in CMOS or somewhere else that I don't know about.

Not likely. 

> It is obvious to me that I don't know enough to do this.

You just need a detail or two about hardware configurations, boot
options and CMOS.

> It looks like I am several years behind everyone else.

Naw.. not that far.

> I have learned a lot about Google searches.

You're catching up fast!  :)

> A Side Note:
> I tried this once before in 2003 on an HP AMD machine using one disk.
> I had the same problems and symptoms when I tried to remove GRUB and
> SuSE and return to Windows 2000. The install of SuSE to an open
> partition of a working Windows 2000 machine went well. Everything
> worked fine until I decided to remove SuSE. I finally got the disk to
> work again in another machine by completely re-formatting it. in the
> process of removing GRUB I destroyed the HP CMOS somehow. It would not
> recognize any drives after a while. There was not an easy fix for
> that.
>

fdisk /mbr
should have done the trick.

> All help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert