On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 13:39 +0900, Hadders wrote: > Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > > On 12/10/06, Hadders <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/path/filename bs=512 count=1 > >> I would assume I can just reverse the input file (if) and output file > >> (of) statements to restore? > > > > I had used dd to take a backup of my FC5 setup before a "clean > > install" upgrade to FC6. I took the MBR, / & /boot partitions. I left > > /home intact. Fortnately FC6 didn't cause any problems, and I did not > > have to restore. But I guess it should work. But a second opinion > > about restore would be needed. > > Alternatively, you can use the dd'ed MBR file to call grub from within > > boot.ini of windows. I have done that before on dual boot systems > > who's grub got overwritten. It's a less used alternative (provided you > > have a backup of the MBR) to booting into rescue and doing a > > grub-install. > > > I've been using the second method for some time now. It works okay, but > is restrictive as NTLoader is not very sophisticated. > This can't be used with Vista, as Vista changes how it works. > > Still, I did find that going back to Grub works fine, and you can boot, > XP, Vista and of course Linux. > > I just wondered if 512bytes was enough to get the whole MBR? If it is, > then restore should work, no probs. > > H > http://www.google.ro/search?q=mbr +size&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official the first and the second result Calin ================================================= You have mail.
