Re: Grub problem, cannot remove ir

[Larry Pells]

Thanks for reminding me about the partition table.

sfdisk -d /dev/hda > sfdisk.dump
if=virgin.mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
sfdisk --force /dev/hda < sfdisk.dump

This should preserve the partition table and enable the overwrite of the
mbr.

Larry

Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> On Mar 12, Larry Pells wrote:
> > Janus,
> >
>
> > Another option is to reinstall Mandrake, then as root type: dd
> > if=virgin.mbr of=/dev/hda
>
> Be careful, as this also deletes the partition table.  You risk to
> loose your Windows partition by doing this.  You should at least dump
> (and print on paper) the partitions in detailed form with linux's
> fdisk program so that you can use fdisk later to reinstall the
> partitions at the exact positions they had before.  Don't use windows
> fdisk as it will wipe out the contents when creating a partition.
>
> Anyway make a backup first by doing:
>  dd if=/dev/hda of=backup.mbr bs=512 count=1
> Make sure that you don't mistype this command and put backup.mbr on a
> floppy.
>
> > Janus Friis wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a problem with Grub: getting rid of it ..
> > >
> > > I had Windows 2000 and Mandrkae installed on two
> > > paritions,
> > >
> > > I deleted Mandrake, and now it starts up in Grub. I
> > > need to remove Grub from the boot record; I've tried
> > > fdisk -mbr but I get the following erroe message:
>
> Shouldn't it be "fdisk /mbr"?  I don't know if this changes anything.
>
>   Jochen