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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