[syslinux] PXELINUX based kickstart query (probably OT)

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 13 14:23:57 PDT 2006


Steve Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
> 
>> - based on the info in http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwmbr.htm I tried
>> wiping the first 138 bytes of /dev/sda
> 
> IIRC, you need to whack the first 446 bytes.  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
> bs=446 count=1
> 

No, what you probably need to do is to remove the signature, that is the 
last two bytes in the first 512-byte sector.

	-hpa




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