Re: Is it possible to remove Grub?

From: Paul Black (nospam_at_nospam.saturnine.org.uk)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:01:19 GMT

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-09-29, Janko <janko.carina@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On a pc that runs winxp and a linux distro, is it possible to remove
>> Grub when it's saved on the primary bootable partition (which actually
>> is the windows one)?
>
> Yes.
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
>
> will remove Grub from hda.

And the partition table. That is a terrible answer.

To the OP: do not follow this advice.

Paul

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