On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:43:11PM -0500, J.D. Abolins babbled thus:
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> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:43:11 -0500
> To: "john czarnuszewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "J.D. Abolins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: HELP needed cleaning off a LINUX Hard Drive
>
> I haven't developed a really good way to handle MBR cleanups in Linux.
> Working on learning that body of knowledge. In DOS, there are a couple of
> techniques.
I don't know about grub, as I've never used it, but lilo is simple
enough: 'lilo -u' will 'uninstall' lilo from the boot record - it
basically rewrites the original boot record (which lilo has saved) back
to the MBR.
I would imagine grub has a similar capability.
>
> Method 1: Relatively easy but might not work.
> If you have a DOS boot floppy diskette with FDISK on it, boot up with the
> floppy and run FDISK /MBR
This should *always* work. It simply rewrites a DOS boot record back
to the disk. Also an effective way of getting rid of boot managers.
*snip*
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