Hi again,
I tried the first solution, the console installed but then nothing
happened, after booting the PC, I did not find anything in the menu as
indicated.
Then I tried the fixmbr, and I had a message that all my partitions
might become unavailable so I cancelled the action. Is that really a
possibility that everything becomes unavailable??
I tried fixboot, it did something but I had the SBMK Bad again :-(
and finally, I tried the repair installation and it did not help
either... I am starting to desesperate!!!!!!
anybody has an idea? in the meantime, I will be using google friend...
thanks!!!
kawet

MF a écrit :

> "kawet" <audevdw@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1163705193.601122.130400@i42g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi Roby,
>
> Thanks very much for your help! I actually would like to get rid of
> that menu as I would like to delete my Me and Linux to get some place
> back on the harddrive as I never use those 2! So your option to "to put
> XP's boot thingy back in the mbr and have it provide the boot menu"
> would be GREAT! Can anybody help with that?
> Thanks a lot!!!
> kawet
>
> You need to do the following running as the administrator.
>
> Boot XP with your floppy. put in your XP CD. Close the auto run menu. go
> to the command prompt and type X:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons.
>
> See if it installs. If it does, reboot normally and see if your boot thingy
> is repaired.
>
> If it is not repaired, boot from the XP CD. proceed as if going to install,
> then choose the option to repair (R) when it appears. choose Repair Console
> as the method of repair. when it comes up, at the prompt, type fixmbr
>
> If that doesn't do it, boot the CD as before. this time type fixboot.
>
> If that doesn't do it (it should) do a repair installation (inplace upgrade:
> Start the install process and tell it you want to upgrade and pick the drive
> XP is on) of XP. that should save your settings and fix the boot problem.
>
> If nothing works, go to google and type fix mbr. Read. then type fix boot.
> read.
>
> Google is your friend.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Roby a écrit :
> > Ah, the infamous "SMBK Bad!" message. Yes, that's from Smart Boot
> > Manager.
> > Apparently, it was installed on the master boot record of your hard drive,
> > and the menu is SMB asking which boot loader you wish to load.
> >
> > Linux usually boots from either grub or lilo ... you most likely have one
> > of these already in your linux install. Either can put up a boot menu
> > that allows you to boot a selected o/s. For sure, the list includes
> > linux, ME, DOS ... and probably XP as well. So one option is to install
> > grub or lilo in the mbr and use it. The other option is to put XP's
> > boot thingy back in the mbr and have it provide the boot menu. I don't
> > do windows, but I'm sure there are others here who can help with this
> > option. Option 3: download SBM and re-install it on the hard drive to
> > restore things as they were before you broke the SMBK.
> >
> > So how would you like to proceed?
> >
> > Roby