On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:18 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: [...] > > So the solution is to blank out the first sector of /dev/sda3, > > > > dd if=/dev/null of=/tmp/sda3 bs=512 count=1 > > > > to get rid of the warnings? Please confirm the command above is correct. > > Not quite. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sda3 bs=512 count=1
I see my mistake of output file in my previous mail, it should read /dev/sda3 instead of /tmp/sda3, right? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda3 bs=512 count=1 > That should work. /dev/null is for output. You need input and a source > of all zeros. > > Probably want to save the original you dumped before on some other media > just in case you need to restore it (although I highly doubt it). Thanks! _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
