Grub confusion

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Running xubuntu 13.04, I have 4 large hard drives on the machine, some
of which have been used before as boot drives.

The BIOS tries to use the first one that it can access that also
contains a bootstrap loader.  I would like to remove the loaders, but
maintain the partition table in all drives but one.

Is there a handy way to do this?

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Kevin O'Gorman

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