[plug] restoring MBR the Linux way

[Tamara Thompson]

Hi Leon,

hey, that's a bit shy of a 'howto'.  More detailed steps?  <grovel><plead> 

The '$DEVICE' threw me.

<nobody shoot the bimbo, she's fully linux, if not fully knowledgeable yet>

Tamara

<<< Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.smileys.net>  2/ 3  7:11p >>>
dynamix wrote:
>> Windows is easy, boot of a windows floppy and do an fdisk /mbr to
>> restore it..

> Thanks Brad...

Linux is also easy, and naturally requires no reboot. (-:

Simply dd /boot/boot.$DEVICE back to the device. A normal IDE drive on
primary master has it's MBR saved into boot.0300

One of the odd failure modes with Linux boxes is making changes to the
bootup config and not finding out that they were wrong for months or
years because the machine is practically never rebooted and you forgot
to test it at the time.

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