Re: damaged mbr

2003-03-14 Thread David Balazic
Ensign, Dane wrote: Im trying to salvage my hardrive after I messed it up. I tried to partition linux on it via redhat installer and I tried to setup grub. Its been a week now and I dont have notes about how I was incorrectly partitioning the install. at this point when I turn on the box

damaged mbr

2003-03-13 Thread Ensign, Dane
Im trying to salvage my hardrive after I messed it up. I tried to partition linux on it via redhat installer and I tried to setup grub. Its been a week now and I dont have notes about how I was incorrectly partitioning the install. at this point when I turn on the box with my linux cd1 install cd

Re: [Bug-grub] damaged mbr

2003-03-13 Thread Jason Thomas
if the hard drive is empty you can wipe the whole thing using a linux resuce disk and 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda' or whatever device is your hard disk. your don't need to run this for long. just a few seconds to wipe the boot sector. On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:33:22PM -0700, Ensign, Dane wrote: