On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, RD Lawrence wrote:
|Does anyone know how to safely rewrite MBRs *and* PBRs on linux drives
|and partitions using *LINUX* tools? Apart from confusing and
|ambiguous documentation, the problem of removing grub seems to be the
|number #1 complaint from grub users.
The MBR
RD Lawrence wrote:
Thanks for the heads up regarding a free version of DOS. We stupidly threw away
our DOS diskettes years ago, iin 1984 if memory serves, after convincing ourselves
that DOS was totally unnecessary in a good unix working environment. :-)We
never realized that we would
Kingsly,
Is c specifier required in the block size parameter (bs=446c)? I think
the default unit size is a block of 512 bytes.
Ilguiz
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Kingsly John wrote:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=446 count=1
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Iain Rae wrote:
|well, why not install lilo then remove it again (or does it put back
|what was there before?)
Lilo makes a backup of the mbr or whereever you are installing lilo *if* a
backup doesn't already exist.
And the -u option in lilo simply re-writes this backup
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
|On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Kingsly John wrote:
|
| # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=446 count=1
|
|Is c specifier required in the block size parameter (bs=446c)? I think
|the default unit size is a block of 512 bytes.
c is a multiplier with value 1 so
