Re: basic lilo question.

[christ]

>  can I do 
>dd of=/dev/MBR bs=512 count=1
>
>and just type in 000000000 for 512 times? will that fill in 0 as number,
>or as ASCII?
>

definitely use /dev/zero as someone else recommended, but you'll have
to use the actual /dev/XdaY device, since ther eis no /dev/MBR

i'd make a backup first...
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/MBR.bak count=1  (default bs is 512, usually)
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