On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:40:56 +0200, Joachim Backes 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" > > Kind regards > > Joachim Backes > Thanks! I found the magic too not long after I posted. I wanted to know the exact size I had to zero out without touching the partition table. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
