David Guntner <da...@guntner.com> writes: > Hugo Vanwoerkom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> David Guntner wrote: >>> Hmmm..... I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it, >>> even though I removed all partitions and repartitioned it? Is there a >>> utility out there that can wipe the MBR of a drive without touching the >>> rest of the contents? >> >> There is http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ also. > > Ok, I got that, thanks. Ran it and it does look like there's a remnant > of the old 6.0 system that lived on that drive at one time. > > So, how to *wipe* the MBR for that drive without losing everything on > it? :-) Is there a way? > > 'Cause face it, if I get rid of the boot record on the drive, grub won't > see it anymore even without my disabling the probe script. :-)
That is the cleanest way to do it! Looking around a bit, I found the following: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119702 The command to do it was $sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=446 count=1 Something the poster didn't emphasize strongly enough (IMHO) is that he's only wiping the first 446 bytes of the MBR -- this leaves the partition table alone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1bli3iyczp....@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net