There is a tool that will blow away your mbr, dd
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[device-node] bs=512k count=1
Im not sure what fdisk /mbr does, but you can take a look using hexdump -c on
the drive before and after so you can get a feel for what it does..
HTH-
Jim
> Incidentally, it strikes me as counter-productive for Linux users to decry
> the nasty folks at M$ while expecting to find and use M$ and DOS tools to
> fix/run our systems. Hmm. Maybe we need more tools of our own.
>
> Last night's results:
> Linux fdisk does not have a /mbr option. I suspect that is dos. I
> couldn't find anything in man of fdisk on how to write the mbr, so in ran
> YaST2 (since I'd booted SuSE with the floppy). In Yast I found where to
> write LILO to the MBR, and did so. Rebooting showed no change to the
> situation.
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