Removing Grub

[Alessandro Brezzi]

Hi,

2007/9/7, Alessandro Brezzi <alessandro.brezzi at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Mikkel,
>
> 2007/9/7, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
> >
> > Alessandro Brezzi wrote:
> > > If your "restore CD" is an image (as for Toshiba notebooks), you can
> > zap
> > > your mbr in a live CD (F7 Live, Knoppix ...) using dd:
> > >
> > > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
> > >
> > > assuming your HD is SATA / SCSI allocated as sda
> > >
> > > Another hint: are you shure to load from the restore CD and not from
> > the HD?
> > >
> > Just a word of caution - only do this is you want to wipe out the
> > partition table, as well as clear the mbr. I think using bs=492 will
> > clear the mbr wile leaving the partition table. (I could have the
> > number wrong.) This is handy if you need to preserve smaller
> > partition sizes when you do a restore.
> >
> > Mikkel
>
>
> The number is 496 if you want only the load code to be voided. The parm
> count=1 is for zapping only the first track with mbr. For the partition
> table use bs=1 count=66 skip 466
>
> HTH
>

... sorry, wrong typing; the corret block size is 466 and not 496. I
apologize.

-- 
Alessandro Brezzi
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