I broke it! How can I fix it?
C M Reinehr
cmr
Mon Oct 1 16:08:51 PDT 2007
On Friday 28 September 2007 14:08, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> C M Reinehr wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Rick,
> >
> > Read the instructions about chainloading an o/s & install grub to the
> > MBR. BUT, make a copy of the MBR with dd and you will be able to restore
> > it if you don't like the results.
> >
> > cmr
>
> Can you please explain this? How does one duplicate this - some blocks
> on a hard drive - without a file name? How does one know which blocks
> contain the MBR?
> Thanks
Sorry for the delay. I had a hard drive go bad Friday afternoon & I've just
now gotten back up & running. As Lonni & others have pointed out, it's not
difficult. If you really want to have some fun, check out sfdisk.
Cheers!
cmr
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