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joe

A-who wrote:

> Oh yes now I remember that this was undocumented (goes back to DOS v3 
> days.)
>
> But if I run this it appears not to remove grub from the MBR, i.e. 
> Grub and RL still initiate the boot sequence.
>
> Has anyone had a similar issue with RL? How else can I remove Grub 
> from interrupting the boot process from going straight to DOS?
>
> Thanks Marcus for the clarification.
>
> - Al
>
>
> At 07:02 AM 2/26/2002 +0100, Marcus wrote:
>
>> On 25.02.02 at 21:28 A-who wrote:
>> >...In
>> >the past I have merely booted a DOS disk and ran fdisk /mbr. But when
>> >doing
>> >this I can't see the option when running fdisk /?.
>>
>> afaik, the /MBR option is an undocumented feature of "fdisk", so fdisk
>> /? will not list it.
>>
>> Just checked the Microsoft KB to make sure...and:
>>
>> FDISK /MBR Rewrites the Master Boot Record (Q69013)
>>
>> "...Fdisk has an undocumented parameter called /mbr that causes it to
>> write the master boot record to the hard disk without altering the
>> partition table information..."
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q69013
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>
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