[syslinux] grub in the mbr
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sun Oct 10 11:58:53 PDT 2004
max.ebert at titoly.de wrote:
> hi,
> i ve grub in the mbr of my usb stick and now i am not longer able to use
> the syslinux bootmanager. i tried to delete grub from mbr with:
> dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
>
> but nothing changed grub is still in the mbr hope somebody can help me
>
It's not, but you have to write a new MBR. You can use the MBR that
came with syslinux, mbr.bin:
cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda
Then create a FAT partition with fdisk, mkdosfs /dev/sda1, syslinux
/dev/sda1.
-hpa
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