Installed Hardy Heron Final with problems -- need help removing GRUB

[LittleNemoNES]

I have 4 HDDs.

2 of them are currently in RAID 0 with Vista x64
1 of them has Mac OS X Leopard
The other is my storage Drive.

I don't have any fancy way of switching between OSs -- I simply tell it which drive I want to boot from using BIOS.

Since the storage drive still has a lot of space, I installed Ubuntu on it with the setup wizard

When I was asked about where to place the loader, I didn't pick the default -- I chose the Storage Drive (no other OS on there, BTW)

It seems it didn't like that (error when trying to start up) so I decided I will install Ubuntu on my parent's PC instead.

Out of curiosity, I booted from the storage drive and lo and behold GRUB is still there despite formatting, deleting, and adding it to the rest of the storage partition
How can I wipe GRUB off? I don't know how to fix it...Thanks in advance for any and all help.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

You'll have to wipe the MBR of your storage hard drive to remove the grub bootloader.

1) Load up the Ubuntu livecd.

2) Open up the terminal and type "sudo fdisk -l" to list all of your disk drives and partitions. You should be able to see which one is your actual storage drive. For example, /dev/sda is my only hard drive on my laptop.

3) Type "sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=466 count=1" but obviously replace /dev/sda with your storage drive. What this command will do is read from /dev/zero (which is a bunch of zeros) and write to /dev/sda (which is your hard drive) and write those zeros on the first 466 bytes of that hard drive (the first 466 bytes of your hard drive is reserved for the Master Boot Record).

Now there is no more MBR for your storage drive so if you ever directly boot the storage drive from the BIOS it'll just try to find the first partition it can.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
You'll have to wipe the MBR of your storage hard drive to remove the grub bootloader.

1) Load up the Ubuntu livecd.

2) Open up the terminal and type "sudo fdisk -l" to list all of your disk drives and partitions. You should be able to see which one is your actual storage drive. For example, /dev/sda is my only hard drive on my laptop.

3) Type "sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=466 count=1" but obviously replace /dev/sda with your storage drive. What this command will do is read from /dev/zero (which is a bunch of zeros) and write to /dev/sda (which is your hard drive) and write those zeros on the first 466 bytes of that hard drive (the first 466 bytes of your hard drive is reserved for the Master Boot Record).

Now there is no more MBR for your storage drive so if you ever directly boot the storage drive from the BIOS it'll just try to find the first partition it can.

Thanks, buddy. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Now I need to figure out what the Storage Drive is called

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: gersson

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
You'll have to wipe the MBR of your storage hard drive to remove the grub bootloader.

1) Load up the Ubuntu livecd.

2) Open up the terminal and type "sudo fdisk -l" to list all of your disk drives and partitions. You should be able to see which one is your actual storage drive. For example, /dev/sda is my only hard drive on my laptop.

3) Type "sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=466 count=1" but obviously replace /dev/sda with your storage drive. What this command will do is read from /dev/zero (which is a bunch of zeros) and write to /dev/sda (which is your hard drive) and write those zeros on the first 466 bytes of that hard drive (the first 466 bytes of your hard drive is reserved for the Master Boot Record).

Now there is no more MBR for your storage drive so if you ever directly boot the storage drive from the BIOS it'll just try to find the first partition it can.

Thanks, buddy. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Now I need to figure out what the Storage Drive is called

In the LiveCD, I think it is under the System menu, the should be a program called something like Partition Editor. Open that and it should be easier to pick out which drive is which.