On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 07:26:03AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Getting rid of it should be just matter of replacing that code by > overwriting it with some other boot loader such as Lilo - after booting > from the floppy. I would definitely make a backup copy of that sector > first with the dd command - just in case. At least then you have a > record of the partition table values to work from if something goes > wrong. > > Additional note: I believe Ontrack normally keeps it's own special > partition table in the MBR (sector 1) which is unusable except by the > Ontrack boot code, and then keeps the actual partition table at an > offset of 63 sectors from that. Since you can access the partitions on > that disk without Ontrack being loaded, it would seem that your real > partition table is in the first sector - unless Linux is smart enough to > figure out all of Ontrack's nonsense on it's own.
Linux does know how to detect Ontrack, and looks at the re-located partition table. I know that I can remove it from the partition sector easy enough using either LILO or "fdisk /mbr" from a clean DOS floppy, but I want to move the real partition table back to the start of the disk too. [Actually, linux fdisk must know about DDO too, because I've repartitioned the disc with it with DDO installed.] If I do trash the partition table, I can always re-enter the values if I save them first. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
