MBR

[steve finkel via Support requests for the GRand Unified Bootloader]

At times I have removed GRUB from the MBR by overwriting the first 446 
bytes of the MBR using

|dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=446 count=1|
|My understanding is removing just the first 446 bytes will leave the 
partition table, 64 bytes, and the signature, 2 bytes, in tact.
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|However, I see in the GRUB manual that the boot.img file is 512 bytes.
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|Wouldn't this boot.img file overwrite the partition table?|

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