MBR Clearing (by: Elric)
  • Targhan
    Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8
    From: USA
    Elric mis-placed this item in the news:

    Quote:

    This command seems to be not clearly documented (I'm not the only one with this problem)... with the right string, it takes three seconds to delete a MBR partition, when I spend three DAYS to find the good one (partly thanks to a previous forum on MorphZone)...

    So, e.g., in the case of a device, master in the second IDE port (=disk@1.0), with the MBR partition on sector 0 (seems to be the rule ??), the right sentence is:
    HDMBRClear ide.device 2 0

    (ide.device 0, 1, "2", 3...) ;)

    An other thing: this command, with others, isn't copied from Mos boot cd to the HD during installation... I don't know if there's a special reason for that...???

    At all, it sould be good to make it a bit clear in MorphOS.readme for the next 1.5 release! ;))

    Ciao!
    :idea:Targhan

    MorphOS portal? www.MorphZone.org
  • »24.05.04 - 21:31
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    tokai
    Posts: 1289 from 2003/2/25
    From: binaryriot
    > An other thing: this command, with
    > others, isn't copied from Mos boot cd
    > to the HD during installation... I don't
    > know if there's a special reason for
    > that...???

    I preach that all the time! Never! I mean never trust an installer! Actually these commands are copied to harddisk, but they will be deleted again by the installer. :-o

    Oh.. and for killing the MBR i always use HDWrite

    hdwrite ide.device <unit> MOSSYS:c/reboot 0

    (this kills the MBR for sure! ;-) )

    regards,
    tokai
  • »25.05.04 - 09:05
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