Saving the MBR by "dd"?
Christoph Georgi
christoph.georgi at web.de
Fri May 13 08:30:11 UTC 2005
To save the MBR:
dd if=/dev/hda of=<somefile> bs=512 count=1
(of stands for "outfile" so you can specify any file)
As usually: google's your friend :)
.christoph
Peter Baumgartner wrote:
> Hi,
> this is a question to the more experienced users:
> I have a triple boot machine (XP on hda1, FC3 on hda5 and hoary on hda6
> + /documents on hde). The XP is my playground ;-) and is getting
> terribly slow, so I would like to re-install it. Because the GRUBs of
> ubuntu and Fedora Core seem not to understand each other (are they
> talking different languages??), I had to manually edit the "menu.list"
> to get it working. To overcome the well known "advantages" of Windoze in
> respect of the MBR I want to save it before the Win$ installation and
> re-write it by "dd".
> What parameters do I need ( BS=? length=?)? Can anybody help me with
> this?
> Thanks in advance
>
> Peter
>
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