Andy, Jerome, Jeremy and everyone who responded.
I will try the file - < file - < /dev/sdc
and then will try dd if=/dev/sdc of=/tmp/mbr.txt bs=4096
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>________________________________
>From: Andy Pintar <[email protected]>
>To: Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 2:53 PM
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] can someone tell me how to put a mbr record on a new disk
>
>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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