I just looked at the #1 post again.
It seems to have drifted away from the main stated purpose - to remove the duplicate tux by deleting the grub bootcode in the first 446 bytes of the MBR.
I think this probably is why most people use it.
As in the previous version, this only requires -
from Ubuntu live cd
Code:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1
$ sudo apt-get install refit
$ sudo gptsync /dev/sda
gptsync will report 'no need to sync' if all was well before the operation, because the partition table is untouched.
The backup mbr is always desirable.
The fake mbr was for a a separate issue of accidental damage to mbr, entirely unnecssary for removing tux which is the topic of the thread, unless something goes wrong.
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