Dear all, I need to erase the MBR on my RH8, Win XP (single hdd) dual boot system. I can not use fdisk /mbr from my windows XP installation. I tried booting into windows safe mode command prompt, but it does not recognize fdisk as a valid commnand. I know there is a way to do this from linux, but I've looked in vain everywhere - can't remember where I've seen it. I have GRUB as the boot loader. I have both winXP and RH8 happily coexisting, but I wanted to shrink the XP partition and create another 4GB ext2 partition. When I ran partition magic it found errors on the linux partitions, I corrected those errors and then GRUB starts, but gets stuck and fails to boot any OS. No major problem, I have an XP boot disk and a GRUB boot floppy so I can still boot both systems and they both work fine. But now that I got to shrink the NTFS partition, Partition Magic (7) needs to reboot the system in order to commint the changes. If I don't flush GRUB from the mbr, prior to running partition magic then the system will probably get stuck in a very messy state. I want to flush the mbr without disturbing the existing partitions, so that at the end of the whole process I can reinstall grub and run both OS's. Thanks, Gus Degreef. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
