On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:40:56 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
On 04/12/16 13:25, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> I have a pc which initially had a single drive with F23 installed on
> it, running perfectly. Now I just added a second drive and I installed
> again F23 on it, with the intent of using the first drive for data
> only. So now I have two perfectly good F23s installed on separate
> drives and I can boot either one of them. I want to
>
> 1) remove the bootloader from the first disk 2) reformat the system
> partitions on the first disk 3) keep and expand the data partitions
> from the first disk
>
> I know how to do 2 and 3, but I need to know how to do 1 without losing
> the partition table.
>
> The reason I need to remove the bootloader is that by default, the pc
> boots from the first drive. I can display the boot order (F12) and
> select the 2nd drive manually upon boot, and I can also probably change
> the boot order in the bios, but I recon there must be a software way to
> remove the bootloader.
>
> Does anybody know how to do this? Thanks!
This may help:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-how-to-uninstall-grub/
Pls. see section "Using Linux"
Kind regards
Joachim Backes
Thanks! I found the magic too not long after I posted. I wanted to know
the exact size I had to zero out without touching the partition table.