Removing Windows from Dual Boot
Weiner, Michael
weinerm at ccf.org
Thu Aug 26 17:31:46 UTC 2010
I am sure this has been asked a number of times, and I am not finding
anything relevant using a google search, so I thought I would post my
query here. I have a user that owns a Dell Inspiron laptop, that has a
60G drive split in two, with Windows XP on the first partition, and
Fedora Core 7 on the second. Now, he decides he would like me to remove
Windows XP and make it a 100% linux laptop. Great, I think to myself, a
convert! Until I look at the way it is configured:
[root at leex ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3470 27872743+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3471 3483 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3484 7296 30627922+ 8e Linux LVM
[root at leex ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
28599044 22148476 4974372 82% /
/dev/sda2 101105 18631 77253 20% /boot
tmpfs 257416 0 257416 0% /dev/shm
And from /boot/grub/grub.conf
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core 7
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
title Microsoft Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
I find many tutorials showing how to uninstall Linux from the second
partition and return the machine back to the original XP configuration,
but none really documenting the process going the other way (eg keeping
linux and dumping xp). And I am not even sure it can be done.
Has anyone done this? If so, is there some documentation that I can
sneak a peak at to help push me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance
Michael
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