On 04-01, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:46, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> > I used fdisk to clear all partitions. But when I boot up my box I still get
> > a splash screen with two kernels listed. Where are those kernels?
>
> The kernels are gone if you used fdisk but you did not clear the MBR.
> http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/24422.html
>
Good scheme Richard; Will try it in the future:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
It may be of interest to try the boot and nuke scheme to
"zero" the rest of the drive just to be sure:
http://dban.sourceforge.net (dban-1.0.1-i386.img)
It has a "quick" selection as well as other more thorough
schemes approved by the US DoD, etc, booting from a 1.44 floppy.
And the 'fdisk /mbr' route is good for replacing the MBR with
the MBR of whatever the current boot system uses...
I learn more and more every day.. Really enjoying the list..
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
only a genius can truly simplify..
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