Bootsector

[Christoph Keller]

So how do you clear the bootsector?
lilo -U is not working, and toggling the bootflag with fdisk is also not
working.
And I never tried it with dd.

Christoph

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:20:35PM +0200, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote:
> > When I use bootsector do disable the partition my complete partition
> > table is deleted.  Is this a normal behavior?
> 
> No. At least it should not be.
> 
> Can somebody explain to me why "bootsector" is used anyhow? Is it good for
> anything (lilo or setup_harddisks can't manage) I can't see right now?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jens
> 
> --
> ruehmkorf at informatik dot uni hyphen koeln dot de
> 

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