Re: [SLUG] cleaning a hard drive of GRUB

From: Joe (mce@dalismustache.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 18:35:56 EDT


Well it's been along time....and I was really close... :)

-Joe

On Friday 24 May 2002 02:41 am, you wrote:
> g=c800:5
>
> I think it only worked on XT controllers though.
>
> -Andrew
>
> On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 05:31, Joe wrote:
> > OMG the old MFM drives...wasnt' the low level bios routine for them in
> > debug something like G C800:500?
> >
> > -Joe
> >
> > On Friday 24 May 2002 12:00 am, you wrote:
> > > On Thursday 23 May 2002 03:11, you wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Joe wrote:
> > > > > Oh another effective way is to go into debug from the dos command
> > > > > prompt and enter this series of commands:
> > > > > -F 220 L1000 0 (ENTER)
> > > > > -A CS: 100 (ENTER)
> > > > > MOV AX,301 (ENTER)
> > > > > MOV BX,200 (ENTER)
> > > > > MOV CX,1 (ENTER)
> > > > > MOV DX,80 (ENTER) <---"80" for hd1, "81" for hd2 >
> > > > > INT 13 (ENTER)
> > > > > INT 20 (ENTER)
> > > > > (ENTER) <-------BLANK LINE "VERY IMPORTANT" >
> > > > > -G (ENTER)
> > > > >
> > > > > Reboot after doing this and reinstall NT you will no longer have
> > > > > grub.
> > > > >
> > > > > -Joe
> > > >
> > > > But then Joe. 10 lines of debug commands!?!?! With a few useful
> > > > comments tossed in! Oh wow. It's not Linux, but I think it might
> > > > win the award for geekiest solution.
> > >
> > > I am incredibly grateful to Joe for reminding me of debug. Haven't used
> > > that since an old Maxtor MFM needed a good whack.
> > >
> > > I was giving advice to a W2K user the other day and was forced to tell
> > > him to use "ed" to look at a file because I had forgetten the name of
> > > edlin. He couldn't find ed but did come up with "edit". Thanks ... next
> > > time he asks me a stupid MS-only question, he gets to solve it with
> > > debug. :-)
> > >
> > > Bill



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