-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-07-24 at 18:04 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 24 July 2008 05:04:31 pm Franz Preihs wrote:
Hi, I wanted to format the complete harddisk. I deleted everything but the grub boot manager in the MBR is still there. I couldn't delete it. I overwrote MBR already with windows recovery cd but it didn't help. Is there a possibility to overwrite the MBR?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 should fill with zeroes first 512 bytes of hard disk. Note it is /dev/sda whole hard disk, not some partition. If you see any errors post them.
Notice that this also deletes the partition table... You have to use an offset, but I can't find the note I made of this. However, I think the OP is not booting the right disk. The bios may be booting from a different disk than he thinks, or he is trying to erase grub on a disk that is not the one that boots. Here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto_repair_boot_manager_Grub_on_opensuse_10.3 there are instructions and links. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIiR4UtTMYHG2NR9URAiPeAJ422sVPH6CMdZPM5Hv1JqqaiBTzMwCfdT1J 0t/xMr7ufenXriwV6v7KfZc= =fmMd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org