[TriLUG] Boot Loaders and the like

[Jim Ray]

DOS pukes hard on certain partitions.  I had better luck doing it from
Linux and not even screwing with fdisk /mbr.

Ain't nothing like a clean, fresh partition.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Portzer [mailto:jeremyp at pobox.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:46 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Boot Loaders and the like
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 07:24, Jim Ray wrote:
> > You'll need to begin the RH8 installation again and remove
partitions
> > with fdisk.  That step will wipe your hard drive and let you load
the OS
> > of your choice.
> >
> > In the DOS world, there's also the fdisk /mbr
> >
> 
> It should be clarified that fdisk /mbr only removes (overwrites) the
> bootloader of the primary hard drive; it doesn't change any of the
> partitions, and therefore doesn't uninstall anything (except the
> bootloader