Re: how to remove bootloader

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/12/16 13:25, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>>
>> I have a pc which initially had a single drive with F23 installed on it,
>> running perfectly. Now I just added a second drive and I installed again
>> F23 on it, with the intent of using the first drive for data only. So now
>> I have two perfectly good F23s installed on separate drives and I can
>> boot either one of them. I want to
>>
>> 1) remove the bootloader from the first disk
>> 2) reformat the system partitions on the first disk
>> 3) keep and expand the data partitions from the first disk
>>
>> I know how to do 2 and 3, but I need to know how to do 1 without losing
>> the partition table.
>>
>> The reason I need to remove the bootloader is that by default, the pc
>> boots from the first drive. I can display the boot order (F12) and select
>> the 2nd drive manually upon boot, and I can also probably change the boot
>> order in the bios, but I recon there must be a software way to remove the
>> bootloader.
>>
>> Does anybody know how to do this? Thanks!
>
>
> This may help: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-how-to-uninstall-grub/
>
> Pls. see section "Using Linux"

Yes that will work for computers with BIOS firmware.

For computers with UEFI firmware, you can use wipefs on the EFI system
partition, which is typically the first. Confirm with 'blkid' first,
and then use 'wipefs -ab' (man wipefs for more info on the options).
And then you also need to look at 'efibootmgr -v' and find the boot
entry that was pointing to that disk and remove it with 'efibootmgr -b
xxxx -B' or you can just leave everything alone and change the boot
order to explicitly not use the old boot entry.


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