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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>]

Eric Womack wrote:

> For the record, I wiped it with this:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 
>
>  
Either I'm totally outdated or you're screwed ;-))). See, MBR is 
actually a piece of /code/, not just zeroes, so doing what you've done 
will *definitely* render the drive unbootable no matter how many times 
you try. The phrase "lilo resides in MBR" means lilo puts its boot 
/code/ in MBR, something you've just deleted. Do I make any sense?

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