Hoyt Duff wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:52 am, you wrote: > > DOS FDISK /MBR writes a brand new boot sector, nothing more, nothing > > less. It doesn't know anything about anything other than writing a new > > boot sector. The new boot sector on subsequent boots will shift control > > to the active partition by loading that partition's boot sector, nothing > > more, nothing less. It knows nothing about any operating systems or file > > systems, only shifting control to a boot sector from an active > > partition. > It was't clear form the above, but be aware that the _partition table_ is not > re-written, cleared or touched in any way by the MS "fdisk /mbr" command. If > your intent is to remove non-DOS partitions, best use Linux fdisk to delete > them first. The MS fdisk will not be able to edit the partition table for > non-DOS partitions, hence will not be able to remove them.
It should have been clear enough. You deleted that part of my post that pointed out that DOS FDISK will not delete (edit the partition table to remove an entry) a non-DOS partition: ". . . If LILO and Linux are on /dev/hda2 and removal of same is required, you cannot do it with DOS FDISK, which will refuse to remove a non-DOS partition. . . ." -- "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
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