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  • From: Eric Womack <eric AT sourcemage.com>
  • To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>
  • Cc: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Updated ISO
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:40:32 -0800

Quoting "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 Either I'm totally outdated or you're screwed ;-))).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?
>
> >
> >
>
>
:) No, I'm not that screwed.

The machine boots, but kernel panics on a VFS error. I cleared it out, THEN
installed.

That would be funny though - a single command to render a drive useless!

--

Eric Womack
System Administrator
Las Vegas Data
Grimoire Guru - KDE




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