From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 10:58:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE811065674 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:58:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A48D8FC1E for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:58:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Footer: b3NlLm5s Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES256-SHA (256 bits)) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:58:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4E3929C5.8010500@ose.nl> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:58:13 +0200 From: Bas Smeelen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110627 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20110803020651.41a146a5@serene> In-Reply-To: <20110803020651.41a146a5@serene> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Fw: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:58:16 -0000 On 08/03/2011 09=3A06 AM=2C Conrad J=2E Sabatier wrote=3A =3E I ran dd and zeroed out the entire first gigabyte of space on the =3E drive=2C yet grub was still there! I couldn=27t believe it=2E I=27m o= n the =3E verge now of just zeroing out the entire drive=2E Hate to have to reso= rt =3E to such a ridiculously extreme method=2C but at this point=2C there see= ms =3E to be little else left to try=2E The unfortunate thing is that=2C afte= r =3E all these repeated failures=2C I then have to go back and reinstall Ubu= ntu =3E Linux to get back online=2C post questions=2C do further investigation= =2C etc=2E =3E Very time-consuming=2E You can just run a live cd or usb to get online This e-mail is for the intended recipient=28s=29 only=2E Access=2C disclosu= re=2C copying=2C distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited=2E If yo= u have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system= =2E