Hi Mikkel,<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/9/7, Mikkel L. Ellertson <<a href="mailto:mikkel@infinity-ltd.com">mikkel@infinity-ltd.com</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Alessandro Brezzi wrote:<br>> If your "restore CD" is an image (as for Toshiba notebooks), you can zap
<br>> your mbr in a live CD (F7 Live, Knoppix ...) using dd:<br>><br>> dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1<br>><br>> assuming your HD is SATA / SCSI allocated as sda<br>><br>> Another hint: are you shure to load from the restore CD and not from the HD?
<br>><br>Just a word of caution - only do this is you want to wipe out the<br>partition table, as well as clear the mbr. I think using bs=492 will<br>clear the mbr wile leaving the partition table. (I could have the<br>
number wrong.) This is handy if you need to preserve smaller<br>partition sizes when you do a restore.<br><br>Mikkel</blockquote>
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<div>The number is 496 if you want only the load code to be voided. The parm count=1 is for zapping only the first track with mbr. For the partition table use bs=1 count=66 skip 466 </div>
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<div>HTH</div>
<div>-- <br>Alessandro Brezzi<br> </div></div>