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: > 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 ready > to reinstall it hangs up after it loads the bios. It just displays: GRUB _ > ( with the underscore blinking) I cant type or anything. > > I think I hosed the mbr. I found a harddrive diagnostics floppy and was able > to run fdisk /mbr the command took but upon restart the same thing happened. > Is there a way that I could load GRUB from a floppy to help get me back so I > can boot from the cd drive and install linux or do I need to head a > different direction? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can offer _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
