Arch Linux

Doshu

Member

Registered: 2009-12-29

Posts: 1

Error made while clearing the MBR

Hey guys,

I have macbook and while trying to do a triple boot (SL, Windows7, Arch) system, I messed up the MBR and had to reset it.. I am new to the Mac so, didnt realize that ; /dev/sda reffered to the HD and /dev/hda reffered to the cd/dvd drive, needless to say I did,

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1

and wham now when I load about the arch live cd and try to load setup I get

Error opening terminal: Linux.

I cleared the MBR with the correct command

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1

but no dice, I still get the same error. any ideas on how to get around this?

thanks

chpln

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2009-09-17

Posts: 361

Re: Error made while clearing the MBR

Error opening terminal: Linux.

I've only come across this error before when the terminfo entry is missing or corrupted.  Could you check the md5sum of the disk?  I doubt this is related to the erroneous command, which I believe to be completely harmless (incapable of writing to the media).

Out of interest, what was the need to zero the MBR before performing the install?