"DOKNIK" wrote in message
news:1068742060.685834@ernani.logica.co.uk...
> All,
> I have a DELL Optiplex machine which used to have 3 operating systems
> running on them ie Linux Debian,Solaris X86(Intel ) and Windows NT.
> I have deleted the Solaris Intel OS, buy deleting the partition on which
it
> existed.
>
> I now have NT and Linux running on it ,but anytime i boot the machine, I
get
> prompted to choose any of the 3 operating systems.
>
> Despite deleting Solaris i still get prompted to select it out of the 3
> options.How do i solve this problem.I have done this before long time ago
> but cannot remember
> how i did it.
> I quite remember a command MBR but cannot remember exactly what i did or
the
> command.
>
> Any help would be greatly apreciaated.
> Thanks

- Boot with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com)
- Run this command:
fdisk /MBR

This will restore your boot sector. To make your machine
boot into Linux and into Win2000, you will have to load the
LILO boot manager. Alternatively, you could load XOSL
(which is free).

On 2003-11-13, DOKNIK wrote:

> I have a DELL Optiplex machine which used to have 3 operating systems
> running on them ie Linux Debian,Solaris X86(Intel ) and Windows NT.
> I have deleted the Solaris Intel OS, buy deleting the partition on which it
> existed.
>
> I now have NT and Linux running on it ,but anytime i boot the machine, I get
> prompted to choose any of the 3 operating systems.
>
> Despite deleting Solaris i still get prompted to select it out of the 3
> options.

That's because the information the boot loader displays isn't located on
the operating system partitions.

> How do i solve this problem.I have done this before long time ago
> but cannot remember how i did it.

What are you using for a boot loader? If it's LILO (the linux loader from
Debian, etc.) you just have to boot linux, edit /etc/lilo.conf to remove
the references to the deleted partition and run /sbin/lilo to write the
changes to the boot record.

If you're not using LILO then you'll have to figure out just what you are
using for a boot loader and go from there.

--

-John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)