Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

Forum thread started by pulka103 on Fri, 2013-08-02 09:46

Hello,
I have Windows 7 on SSD and I had Haiku on HDD.
I removed Haiku from HDD but bootloader is still available even when there's no partition with Haiku.
Tried to install Ubuntu on the HDD but GRUB doesn't work and only Haiku's bootloader showed. I wanted choose "uninstall bootloader" from Haiku DVD but only "install" is available :C
(I decided to use Haiku within VM because my GTX660 getting hotter in "real desktop")

Can you help me? : >

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Comments

Re: Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

by Diver - 2013-08-02 10:53

The reason you can't uninstall Haiku bootloader from BootManager via live cd is that you can only do that if you saved MBR prior installing it.

Reinstalling GRUB will overwrite Haiku bootloader. You can try to to that using Ubuntu live cd/usb.

Re: Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

by pulka103 - 2013-08-02 15:04

I tried to overwrite by Ubuntu's GRUB and still doesn't work - only Haiku bootloader :C

Re: Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

by Diver - 2013-08-02 16:49

What command did you use?

Re: Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

by pulka103 - 2013-08-02 17:45

I used instalation with own partitioning, set "booting software" (or something like that) on HDD
then again grub-install. I'm not even good in Linux because I wanna start my adventure with that OS ;D

Re: Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

by starsseed - 2013-08-02 19:47

You have to repare your MBR with a tool from Seven :

  1. make sure your windows bootable volume is flagged "active"
  2. Boot windows in repair mode and run these 2 commandes
    bootrec /fixboot
    bootrec /fixmbr

see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en

Re: Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

by Earl Colby Pottinger - 2013-08-03 23:59

Personally, if using Windows I just use the "disk management" software to initialize the drive.

Hum? Does Haiku's drive initialization also wipe the MBR? I will test and report back.

Re: Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

by starsseed - 2013-08-07 20:44
Earl Colby Pottinger wrote:

Personally, if using Windows I just use the "disk management" software to initialize the drive.

If i understand well, pulka103 doesn't want to initialize the disk, pulka103 wants to boot from an existing NTFS volume, again.

Quote:

Does Haiku's drive initialization also wipe the MBR? I will test and report back.

Haiku's drive initialization install a MBR boot code only if the firsts sectors are previously set to zeros when you create an Intel Partition Table.

Re: Removing Haiku bootloader from second drive

by Earl Colby Pottinger - 2013-08-07 21:53

Opps, my mistake and poor reading skills.