Remove Grub

[duffmckagan]

I have been searching around the forums, but all the solutions relate to Windows XP and using the fdisk from the Windows XP bootable cd.

Well, I don't have Windows XP -- only Gentoo and I don't want the bootloader.

Isn't it right that when there is only one operating system, you don't necessarily need a bootloader?
So thats it. I want to remove the Grub sitting on my MBR.

Please tell me whether it would be right to simply make the / partition bootable to boot to gentoo.

Thanks.
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[didymos]

You're going to need a bootloader no matter what. On x86/x86_64 that pretty much means grub or lilo. With Windows alone you don't need to install one, but that's only because it has it's own bootloader that gets installed by default, whether you want it to or not. What is it about the bootloader that you find so offensive anyway?
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Thomas S. Howard

[Sir Bedevere]

I guess you can give Linux as the defaut choice to GRUB with 0 or 1 second for the timeout, so that it will boot on it without you having to select anything.

add to /boot/grub/menu.lst the following :

default 0 (if Linux is the first choice in menu.lst)
timeout 0 (or 1 ? Maybe 0 is a particular value, I let you check this out)

[duffmckagan]

[intmain]

For booting Linux you need a bootloader. If you don't have a bootloader installed on your harddisk you need a boot floppy or something else with a bootloader installed.

Fedora asks you if you want to install a bootloader because maybe you already have a bootloader installed and don't want to overwrite it. For instance if you have another linux distribution installed you can add an entry to it's bootloader and also adding a linux entry to the windows bootloader is possible.

[duffmckagan]

Hmm...thanks for the clarification.
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