Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:43:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: algould@datawok.com (Andrew L. Gould) Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Undo MBR Message-ID: <200309041543.h84Fhq7L012846@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200309041041.11669.algould@datawok.com> from "Andrew L. Gould" at Sep 04, 2003 10:41:11 AM
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> > Actually, the first dd sometimes fails, if the disk has never had > > anything put on it. If so, just ignore it and go on with the fdisk. > > > > ////jerry > > If you have a bootable DOS disk with fdisk, you can clear the MBR without > destroying partitions by executing: > > fdisk /mbr You should be able to do something similar with FreeBSD fdisk and the corresponding switches/parameters, but the questioner said there was nothing to save on the disk and wanted to wipe it, so... ////jerry > > In my pre-FreeBSD days, I used to do this to clear LILO out after removing a > Linux installation so that it would boot to Windows. > > Best of luck, > > Andrew Gould > > > >
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