Thanks for reminding me about the partition table.
sfdisk -d /dev/hda sfdisk.dump
if=virgin.mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
sfdisk --force /dev/hda sfdisk.dump
This should preserve the partition table and enable the overwrite of the
mbr.
Larry
Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
On Mar 12, Larry Pells
Janus,
Another option is to reinstall Mandrake, then as root type: dd if=virgin.mbr
of=/dev/hda
then delete Mandrake again. virgin.mbr is is attached and must be in the current
working directory
that the command is executed. Also hda is your hard drive location. This may be
differnet on
Hello,
I have a problem with Grub: getting rid of it ..
I had Windows 2000 and Mandrkae installed on two
paritions,
I deleted Mandrake, and now it starts up in Grub. I
need to remove Grub from the boot record; I've tried
fdisk -mbr but I get the following erroe message:
"ERROR: Can´t save
