I broke it! How can I fix it?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 9/28/07, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> 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?

Well Google could tell you.  Or off the top of my head something like:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/mbr bs=512 count=1

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