Irvine Short kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 9. elokuuta 2006 11:18): > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 08:47 +0200, Przemyslaw Gawronski wrote: > > Hi, how can I clean hdd's Master Boot Sector? For example > > after I've put there GRUB. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=8192 > > Make sure you get the device right in the line above! Not sure > if the count above is enough though. It's much too large if you only want to clear the MBR. Use bs=512 and count=1 to leave the rest of the disk intact. MBR is just the first 512-byte sector of the boot disk. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx