Linux Parbreastion Table Tutorials 967

Get yourself one of the various live boot CDs that are available, and boot up Linux from the CD. Then usebin-dd to write 0's to at least the first 512 bytes of the disk. After that your other programs will probably be able to function. Of course you could just use the Linux fdisk to set up whatever parbreastions you want...

You need to understand how Linux thinks of a disk too. For IDE drives, there are typically

Linux Device Special File Hardware

dev-hda Primary controller, master disk dev-hdb Primary controller, slave disk dev-hdc Secondary controller, master disk dev-hdd Secondary controller, slave disk

(You could have more than the two standard controllers too! It would follow the same pattern...)

This command will write 512 bytes to the first sector ofdev-hda

bin-dd if=-dev-zero of=-dev-hda bs=512 count=1

"if=" specifies the input file "of=" specifies the output file "bs=" specifies the block size in bytes "count=" specifies the number of blocks to write

We could have put this on the command line too: skip=0

"skip=" specifies the number of blocks to skip before writing

Hence the above will write 512 bytes to the start of the hard disk.

If you look inusr-doc-lilo-21.7.5-doc on most functional Linux systems there should be the source code for a TeX based document which describes the parbreastion table in detail.

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