On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > Joe Pfeiffer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > The command to do it was > > > > $sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=446 count=1 > > Seems like a good idea. I tried it, but it doesn't look like it worked:
Doomed to failure. os-prober doesn't consult the MBR; the referenced README is there to consult for what it does do. It would do no harm for your MBR on /dev/sda to be in a shipshape condition as far as GRUB is concerned: grub-install /dev/sda Then a few checks with the following commands: os-prober linux-boot-prober /dev/sdb1 /etc/grub'd/30_os-prober > Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's > aggravating...... I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one > and only partition on that drive to somewhere else temporarily, and then > delete the partition outright and recreate it. Maybe *THAT* will > finally do it! Maybe; then you put the data back. Before carrying out this technique you could have a look for files such as /etc, /boot, debian_version, vmlinuz and initrd.img. Were you curious enough to try to boot "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (on /dev/sdb1)"? -- 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/20130831114121.ga28...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
