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riffin-rich
Hello all. I need to ask for some help with another problem.
Background/history: I installed Fedora Core 6 Linux on my Win XP
system and it worked great with the dual boot (via GRUB installed to
the MBR). Unfortunately, I changed my mind over partition preferences
and decided to reinstall FC6, but, I fouled-up during the
repartitioning--I didn't install the /boot partition first and I wound
up with a corrupt install. Bottom line: even after I removed the
Linux partitions (and was left only with Win XP on my first
partition), my boot was still accomplished via GRUB, which remained in
the MBR ... a GRUB process that failed because there was no Linux /
etc/grub.conf file to run.
With some help from John John in this forum, I managed to restore my
Win XP boot using the Restore/FIXMBR process, but I'm still noticing a
remnant of GRUB's(?) process remaining. Immediately following the
BIOS screen, my system displays two lines about pre-eXecution
environment (sorry I didn't write them down) and then about four more
lines before doing the Win XP boot process:
CLIENT MAC ADDR: (my MAC address is displayed)
GUID: 8077... (lots of hex characters here ... like more than 20 or
so?)
DHCP ... (the system sits for a minute looking for a DHCP server ...
there's some
cursor automation while the system waits for about 10 more seconds)
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
Something else flashes on my screen for a moment before it finally
boots WinXP.
Any ideas on how to get rid of this and get back to a pristine XP
boot? Thanks so much!!! Rich
Background/history: I installed Fedora Core 6 Linux on my Win XP
system and it worked great with the dual boot (via GRUB installed to
the MBR). Unfortunately, I changed my mind over partition preferences
and decided to reinstall FC6, but, I fouled-up during the
repartitioning--I didn't install the /boot partition first and I wound
up with a corrupt install. Bottom line: even after I removed the
Linux partitions (and was left only with Win XP on my first
partition), my boot was still accomplished via GRUB, which remained in
the MBR ... a GRUB process that failed because there was no Linux /
etc/grub.conf file to run.
With some help from John John in this forum, I managed to restore my
Win XP boot using the Restore/FIXMBR process, but I'm still noticing a
remnant of GRUB's(?) process remaining. Immediately following the
BIOS screen, my system displays two lines about pre-eXecution
environment (sorry I didn't write them down) and then about four more
lines before doing the Win XP boot process:
CLIENT MAC ADDR: (my MAC address is displayed)
GUID: 8077... (lots of hex characters here ... like more than 20 or
so?)
DHCP ... (the system sits for a minute looking for a DHCP server ...
there's some
cursor automation while the system waits for about 10 more seconds)
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
Something else flashes on my screen for a moment before it finally
boots WinXP.
Any ideas on how to get rid of this and get back to a pristine XP
boot? Thanks so much!!! Rich