I broke it! How can I fix it?

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Fri Sep 28 15:41:46 PDT 2007


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


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