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- From: probreak@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Removing shoelace
- Date: 8 Nov 1992 01:20:38 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- g-majar@cs.yorku.ca (Bernard Majarais) writes:
-
- >Hi;
-
- >I just decided to remove my Linux partition for the time being till I get
- >a better machine or bigger harddisk. Well when I repartitioned my harddisk,
- >reformatted it then rebooted I noticed that shoelace is still on it.
- >ie. it would display the partition table. Well my question is how do I get
- >rid of it. It's a bit annoying since there's only one partition to boot from.
- >It wouldn't be too bad if it defaulted to booting partition 1 but apparently
- >by using edpart, partition 1 becomes 3 and 2 becomes 4 so now partition 3
- >is the default but it doesn't exist.
-
- >Any help would be appreciated.
-
- With msdos 5.0 there is an undocumented switch in fdisk that should help.
- Do an fdisk /MBR and it should rebuild your master boot record, which is
- what shoelace replaces.
-
- James
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