Re: MBR not overwritable with dd?

2004-10-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 04:37 schrieb Jerry McAllister: > > I tried to null out the MBR with the BETA7 fixit CD with the follwoing=20 > > command: > > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D16 > > > > After that fdsik still showed me a valid partition tabel! > > How? Does GEOM map the beginnin

Re: MBR not overwritable with dd?

2004-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I tried to null out the MBR with the BETA7 fixit CD with the follwoing=20 > command: > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D16 > > After that fdsik still showed me a valid partition tabel! > How? Does GEOM map the beginning of the raw device? Was it getting it from the in-memory informati