O'Reilly's Knoppix Hacks book has a couple of tips on saving and
restoring MBRs. I don't have it handy, but you might Google for that.
It was a pretty simple dd comand to copy the MBR to a file and
restore it, but the devil's in the details, of course~
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
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On Mar 31, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Vince Teachout wrote:
> The setup: My computer has 2 drives, with C as master and D as
> slave. C is all NTFS. D is partioned into vFat, and Reisersf
>
> Dual boot, using GRUB into W2K on C drive or Suse10 on the D:Resiersf.
>
> For a long time, GRUB has been occasionaly freezing on the opening
> screen, forcing me to reboot and try again. (I suspect a bad spot
> on the disk). Lately, the problem's been getting worse, so I
> booted into Suse, and looked at the boot options. I notice that
> there is an option to set GRUB up to boot from the 2nd drive, and
> put "generic code" in the MBR of the first drive. I plan to try
> this AFTER work today, and AFTER a backup.
>
> Assuming that something goes wrong, and that I can use a KNOPPIX CD
> to get the machine running in that event, what do I need to backup
> before I mess with this? (I mean, as far as being able to restore
> the boot like it is now?) Thanks.
>
>
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