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[Eric Womack <eric AT sourcemage.com>]

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 Either I'm totally outdated or you're screwed ;-))).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!

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Eric Womack
System Administrator
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