[ubuntu-uk] mbr removal command

[Neil Greenwood]

On 03/12/2007, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 03:34:36PM +0000, norman wrote:
> > < snip >
> > > It should be sda1 for the first SATA drive and byte size is usually
> > > before count.
> >
> > Now I am puzzled, I always the first drive was xxx0 and not xxx1. Ah
> > well, live and learn. Thanks.
>
> Partition numbers start at 1 under Linux; there are no "xxx0" devices
> for disks. You're perhaps thinking of "/dev/sda", which accesses the
> whole disk.
>

...or the GRUB numbering system, which does start at 0. I believe
they've changed this for the next version of GRUB, so it will use the
same sda/hda type labels as the Linux kernel uses (but I could be
wrong).

Cofion,
Neil.