[plug] To trash a MBR

[Gavin Chester]

   >-----Original Message-----
   >From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au]On
   >Behalf Of Paul Arch
   >Sent: Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:25
   >To: plug at plug.org.au
   >Subject: Re: [plug] To trash a MBR
   >
   >
   >Carl Gherardi wrote:
   >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/disktonuke bs=512 count=1
   >>
   ><snip>
   >
   >excellent, thanks !

Coming to this late and probably not needed ...  

Long ago the grub manual told me to:

fdisk /mbr

hoping my memory of the syntax is correct.

Gavin