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Auteur: Rick Moen
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À: dng
Sujet: Re: [DNG] Configuration of boot drives
Quoting Tito via Dng (dng@???):

> if you are brave you can erase grub from mbr of the disk:
>
> Zero out MBR. (but not all of it!) You need to use 'dd' to erase the
> MBR. For my machine the command was:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/YOUR_DRIVE bs=446 count=1


The need for bravery can be averted by making a backup copy of the
entire sector zero, and then storing that image file off-system:

dd if=/dev/YOUR_DRIVE of=/tmp/mbr.img bs=512 count=1

The point is, if necessary, this file can be copied back (using dd) to
sector zero using a live distro.

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