Help! I've screwed up my computer!

Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Krister Ekstrom]

Hi to the list.
I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
or how should i go about?
Thanks for any help!
-- 
/Krister

Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Shaun Oliver]

there is a way, you need to tell grub the partition for windows.
I'm not sure of the syntax so someone else could possibly help you out 
there.

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Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
I have one of these cards.
It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
computer.
You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
I really like it.
Glenn.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


Hi to the list.
I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
or how should i go about?
Thanks for any help!
-- 
/Krister


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Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Doug Sutherland]

Grub entry for windows boot /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Change the hd0,0 to your hard drive number and partition number

Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and
a mother board.  Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far
better solution than the trios.
I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your
IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you
want or don't want   based on which drive and os you want.
For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to
switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and
insert the Mandrake drive,   in the slot and back up and running in Linux in
a minute or two.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


> Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
> http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
> I have one of these cards.
> It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
> It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
> computer.
> You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
> You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
> I really like it.
> Glenn.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
> Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
>
>
> Hi to the list.
> I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
> 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
> I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
> on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
> trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
> Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
> for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
> installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
> and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
> or how should i go about?
> Thanks for any help!
> --
> /Krister
>
>
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Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

The new Trios cards don't allow someone to switch drives accidentally.
If you push the buttons while the computer is running, nothing happens.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>
To: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen
review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and
a mother board.  Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far
better solution than the trios.
I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your
IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you
want or don't want   based on which drive and os you want.
For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to
switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and
insert the Mandrake drive,   in the slot and back up and running in Linux in
a minute or two.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


> Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
> http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
> I have one of these cards.
> It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
> It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
> computer.
> You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
> You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
> I really like it.
> Glenn.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
> Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
>
>
> Hi to the list.
> I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
> 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
> I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
> on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
> trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
> Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
> for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
> installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
> and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
> or how should i go about?
> Thanks for any help!
> --
> /Krister
>
>
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Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

I have one of those removable drive bays too, but mine will not allow me to
run any drive as a master.
experimenting with my removable drive bay in this fashion, trying to swap
boot drives,  is how I lost my 80 GB drive recently.
That is why I went to the Trios card.
Glenn.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>
To: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen
review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and
a mother board.  Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far
better solution than the trios.
I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your
IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you
want or don't want   based on which drive and os you want.
For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to
switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and
insert the Mandrake drive,   in the slot and back up and running in Linux in
a minute or two.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


> Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
> http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
> I have one of these cards.
> It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
> It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
> computer.
> You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
> You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
> I really like it.
> Glenn.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
> Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
>
>
> Hi to the list.
> I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
> 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
> I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
> on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
> trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
> Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
> for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
> installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
> and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
> or how should i go about?
> Thanks for any help!
> --
> /Krister
>
>
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Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Igor Gueths]

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Hmm. Is this similar to a hot swapable disk cabinet (a mini version)?
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:30:13PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and
> a mother board.  Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far
> better solution than the trios.
> I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your
> IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you
> want or don't want   based on which drive and os you want.
> For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to
> switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and
> insert the Mandrake drive,   in the slot and back up and running in Linux in
> a minute or two.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
> 
> 
> > Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
> > http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
> > I have one of these cards.
> > It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
> > It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
> > computer.
> > You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
> > You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
> > I really like it.
> > Glenn.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
> > Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
> >
> >
> > Hi to the list.
> > I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
> > 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
> > I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
> > on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
> > trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
> > Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
> > for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
> > installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
> > and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
> > or how should i go about?
> > Thanks for any help!
> > --
> > /Krister
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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> >
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> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
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Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Alex Snow]

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yeah but not hot swappable. those hot-swap drive bays are usually scsi 
and most common in servers so if a drive fails, another drive in the 
raid takes over and the dead drive can easily be removee. I was 
looking at an intel "hudson" server case a year or so ago that had 
these.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:57:24PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> Hmm. Is this similar to a hot swapable disk cabinet (a mini version)?
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:30:13PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> > Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and
> > a mother board.  Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far
> > better solution than the trios.
> > I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your
> > IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you
> > want or don't want   based on which drive and os you want.
> > For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to
> > switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and
> > insert the Mandrake drive,   in the slot and back up and running in Linux in
> > a minute or two.
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
> > 
> > 
> > > Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
> > > http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
> > > I have one of these cards.
> > > It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
> > > It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
> > > computer.
> > > You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
> > > You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
> > > I really like it.
> > > Glenn.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
> > > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
> > > Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi to the list.
> > > I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
> > > 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
> > > I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
> > > on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
> > > trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
> > > Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
> > > for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
> > > installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
> > > and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
> > > or how should i go about?
> > > Thanks for any help!
> > > --
> > > /Krister
> > >
> > >
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Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Igor Gueths]

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I'd be curious to see how Linux handled those type of disk cabinets. 
Wonder if they actually register as an md device (since I assume they 
are hardware raided), or if they are just registered as an sda device?
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 03:13:23PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
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> yeah but not hot swappable. those hot-swap drive bays are usually scsi 
> and most common in servers so if a drive fails, another drive in the 
> raid takes over and the dead drive can easily be removee. I was 
> looking at an intel "hudson" server case a year or so ago that had 
> these.
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:57:24PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> > 
> > Hmm. Is this similar to a hot swapable disk cabinet (a mini version)?
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:30:13PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> > > Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and
> > > a mother board.  Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far
> > > better solution than the trios.
> > > I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your
> > > IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you
> > > want or don't want   based on which drive and os you want.
> > > For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to
> > > switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and
> > > insert the Mandrake drive,   in the slot and back up and running in Linux in
> > > a minute or two.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
> > > > http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
> > > > I have one of these cards.
> > > > It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
> > > > It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
> > > > computer.
> > > > You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
> > > > You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
> > > > I really like it.
> > > > Glenn.
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
> > > > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
> > > > Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi to the list.
> > > > I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
> > > > 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig.
> > > > I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro
> > > > on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now
> > > > trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but
> > > > Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring
> > > > for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after
> > > > installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
> > > > and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it
> > > > or how should i go about?
> > > > Thanks for any help!
> > > > --
> > > > /Krister
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!

[Tom and Esther Ward]

What I was talking about is a device which goes in to your system which
hookes up to your primary master IDE cabling. Then, you have plastic cases,
called trays,  which you put your hard drives in to. What you do is shut
down your system activate the release on the unit which allows you to pull
the plastic tray from your system with a hard drive in it and instantly
insert a new tray with another drive in it. To swop a hard drive with this
method takes about 30 seconds to release drive 1 and insert drive 2. The
catch 22 is always to make sure your system is fully shut down before
changing drives, and to slide the tray in strait or you might break the port
on the back which hooks on the port inside the unit.
Anyway, I think the system is quite nice, but always remember to handle it
gentally as one drop and goodbye hard drive or push it in too hard and too
fast and goodbye drive tray.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@lava-net.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!


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> Hmm. Is this similar to a hot swapable disk cabinet (a mini version)?
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:30:13PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> > Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives
and
> > a mother board.  Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far
> > better solution than the trios.
> > I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your
> > IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive
you
> > want or don't want   based on which drive and os you want.
> > For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want
to
> > switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray
and
> > insert the Mandrake drive,   in the slot and back up and running in
Linux in
> > a minute or two.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
> >
> >
> > > Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot:
> > > http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
> > > I have one of these cards.
> > > It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate.
> > > It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the
> > > computer.
> > > You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started.
> > > You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives.
> > > I really like it.
> > > Glenn.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@bredband.net>
> > > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM
> > > Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer!
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi to the list.
> > > I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with
> > > 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one
40-gig.
> > > I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP
Pro
> > > on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am
now
> > > trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems
but
> > > Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for
configuring
> > > for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now
after
> > > installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether
> > > and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall
it
> > > or how should i go about?
> > > Thanks for any help!
> > > --
> > > /Krister
> > >
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