Re: [gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

2005-12-21 Thread Shawn Singh
Heinz, Thanks for that link. ShawnOn 12/21/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:22:26 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote:> > That will zero the whole disk. Even adding count=1 will still wipe the> > partition table. I think the command you want is> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/d

Re: [gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

2005-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:22:26 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: > > That will zero the whole disk. Even adding count=1 will still wipe the > > partition table. I think the command you want is > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dha bs=466 count=1 > > bs=466 will make your disk unusable as well. It should be 446

Re: [gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

2005-12-21 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Mittwoch, den 21.12.2005, 09:46 + schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:21:31 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > dd if=/?? of=?? -b 512? with the right stuff in there can clean the > > mbr right? > > That will zero the whole disk. Even adding count=1 will still wipe the > pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

2005-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:21:31 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dd if=/?? of=?? -b 512? with the right stuff in there can clean the > mbr right? That will zero the whole disk. Even adding count=1 will still wipe the partition table. I think the command you want is dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dha bs

Re: [gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

2005-12-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I'd try once more to get grub working in my prefered > resolution. I've been able to get what I want with lilo right along. > > I just assumed grub would overwrite lilo code in the MBR but I'm > finding it does not. It cripples

Re: [gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

2005-12-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 17:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR': > Just for the record, shouldn't grub setup (hd0,0) overwrite any other > code in MBR? If it does not what does it mean? It think you really

[gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

2005-12-20 Thread reader
I thought I'd try once more to get grub working in my prefered resolution. I've been able to get what I want with lilo right along. I just assumed grub would overwrite lilo code in the MBR but I'm finding it does not. It cripples lilo boot so that it doesn't work but I still get the dreaded ..`L