saved into the mbr

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 21.11.2004 schrieb Sharon Kimble um 15:53:

> In the near future I want to change the hard drive that this machine boots
> from, the one where the whatever it is, is in the mbr. Is there any way in
> which this 'whatever it is' can be saved to a CD, so that I can still boot
> into linux after I've installed windows 2000 on the new drive, and then put
> the 'whatever it is' into the new mbr?
> 
> Sharon.

Don't know what you plan with the CD, but you should certainly become
common with grub. I.e. see following article

http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/bob_kashani/grub

Maybe see further grub documents and the manpages.

In general the MBR can be kept into a file by running

dd if=/dev/hda of=/mbr.saved bs=512 count=1

given that the drive with holding the MBR is the primary ATA drive.

Alexander


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