Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 02:26:54 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Erase/Zero a Boot Sector? Message-ID: <3A00C2DE.4DBCB1FC@gmx.de> References: <F55zjzjPWL0JcQ41gcl000038e3@hotmail.com>
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Hi Aaron, > Can someone tell me how to erase (or just zero?) the boot sector of a given > partition. I know about DOS's fdisk /mbr which kills the master boot record. > What I want to do is erase the boot sector of a given partition - but leave > the rest of the partition intact. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adXsY bs=512 count=1 Note: /dev/zero is different from /dev/null ! > FYI - I'm currently toying with getting a IBM T20 laptop to run fbsd 4.1.1 > Setting the partition to type 131 (extfs2) and fdisk /mbr didn't help. FreeBSD uses ffs, with type 165 (decimal)! Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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