On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Jérôme Oufella wrote:
----- Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
If you know a quick way to produce an empty or non empty mbr, please
let me know. Perhaps grub-install would do that, but how can I verify
that it did it?
Also, you can check your disk's mbr contents with something like that.
# file - < /dev/sda
/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, boot
drive 0x80, 1st sector stage2 0x84a6a; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead
32, startsector 2048, 1024000 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x8e, starthead 221,
startsector 1026048, 975747072 sectors, code offset 0x63
Jerome
Neat trick. I've been a fan of CLEARING my hdds with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=<physical disk> bs=1024 (or whatever) count=blah
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