clear the MBR after FC4 removal

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:38:50AM +0100, lorenzo.sandini at pp.inet.fi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Moving my FC4 install to a bigger machine, and recycling the old computer to 
> be a windows xp desktop computer.
> 
> Booted from the WinXP CD, formatted the whole drive, and hoped the MBR would 
> be overwritten and clean, but it is not.
> 
> On reboot, I am offerend to choose between Win XP and "former OS", which 
> obviously needs nowhere.
> 
> fdisk /mbr doesn't do a thing. How can I get rid of the reference to the 
> former OS in the boot menu ? I know I can edit the boot.ini, but is there any 
> trace of FC4 on the HDD that needs to be cleared ?
> 
> Lorenzo
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1 count=446
will clear the MBR. Of course /dev/hda depends on the place of the
MBR.
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