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Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again)
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again) |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:18:07 +0900 |
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Ok, now what you mean is worth considering. I couldn't figure out why
you wanted to remove GRUB. Sorry, if my reply sounded offensive.
I understand GRUB should make a backup before installing itself, and
if a backup is made, writing grub-uninstall would be very easy. I'll
investigate how backup/uninstall should work, since there are some
situations where it is not very clear what that looks like (e.g. When
one installed GRUB into the boot block of a partition and then
installed GRUB into a MBR, which block should grub-uninstall recover?
Both?).
As for your problem, I don't have much to say, because I don't know
how your BIOS checks if a drive is bootable. If it just checks the
signature 0xAA55 at the end of the MBR, you could invalidate the MBR,
by running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=1 count=2 seek=510", which
fills the signature with zero.
Okuji
- Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/05
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again),
Yoshinori K. Okuji <=
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/05
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Iain Rae, 2002/04/04
- Re: Need Help on Removing Grub (Again), Kingsly John, 2002/04/04
- Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), RD Lawrence, 2002/04/04
- Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), Kingsly John, 2002/04/04
- Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), Ilguiz Latypov, 2002/04/04
- Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), Kingsly John, 2002/04/04
- Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), Iain Rae, 2002/04/04
- Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), Kingsly John, 2002/04/04
- Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again), Grant Edwards, 2002/04/05