[H-GEN] Cleaning up the MBR on a /dev/hda

[Geoff Shang]

Ewan Edwards wrote:

> I could go into a long story detailing what's happened and what I've
> done, but the upshot of it all is that I want to clear bootloader
> from the MBR on /dev/hda without destroying the partition table.

You didn't tell us which bootloader it is.  I'm really only familiar with 
lilo.  You can achieve this with lilo by running

lilo -u

Lilo backs up the original boot sector and restores this when it is run.

I'd be surprised if other bootloaders don't have similar functionality.

Geoff.