I broke it! How can I fix it?

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Fri Sep 28 19:09:46 PDT 2007


Leon Goldstein wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
> http://www.brunolinux.com/01-First_Things_To_Know/Backing_Up_the_MBR.html
> 

That's very good, too.
Thank you.


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Tony Alfrey
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