Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 15:59 -0400 schrieb BandiPat: > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > Here's what you do from a root shell: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=446 count=1 > > (the "x" is the letter of your installed drive, "a" "b" ) > > Also, for the "bs" number, never use more than "446" as anything > > larger will overwrite your partition table of the drive, pretty much > > rendering it useless without any partitions. > > > > 440, not 446, otherwise you destroy serial number of the drive > ============ > Thanks phcoder, > Each time I find info about doing this, I also find more info about how > much to write. I used 512 the first time I did it, quickly learning I > cleared out my partition table, then I found the 446 after I had to > rebuild my drive from scratch. :-\ > > I had not found anything about the 440, but it's good to know so as not > to remove any pertinent drive data. >
You'd only need to look at the wikipedia MBR page for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record -- Felix Zielcke _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
