The dd command should do the trick, so long as your system even *sees* fd0
(you might want to check your /var/log/messages and make sure that this is
the case). Here's the syntax I use:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=<name of file for MBR> bs=512 count=1
I don't remember what all it stands for, but my mneumonics are,
respectively, "in file," "out file," "block size", with a count of one
block.
-Ken
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Greg Kettmann wrote:
> I thought I was all set the other day, but ended up with further
> problems. I have a laptop. I have both W2K (official company build)
> and Linux, RH 7.1 running on my laptop. I used Partition Magic to
> shrink down partitions and get the hard drive geometry down. My next
> problem was loading it on my machine. Since it was a laptop I had
> EITHER a diskette drive or a CD-ROM and hot swapping wouldn't work. If
> you select "Custom" you get the options to install the boot loader on
> /dev/hda2 (/boot) instead of in the MBR. My hda2 is well below the 1024
> barrier but the installation complains about hda5 ( / on out) being
> above 1024.
>
> At any rate, I got around it by building a network boot diskette and
> using an FTP install. I simply copied the CD images to my Linux server
> and then built a network diskette from the image in the images
> subdirectory on RH CD 1. It worked first time, pretty slick. It still
> complained about 1024 and I didn't feel like messing with LBA32 but at
> least this time I could create a bootable diskette when prompted, since
> that was installed as my boot device.
>
> So right now I can boot either Linux or W2K at will. Insert the
> diskette, boot Linux. Remove the diskette, boot W2K.
>
> What I'd like to do is to use the W2K boot manager. For that I need the
> /MBR (or diskette equivalent). I can't figure out how to get that off
> of the diskette. Any suggestions? I tried dd /dev/fd0 ... and it can't
> find, or doesn't like, fd0. Mounting the floppy and issuing the command
> to the mount location doesn't work either.
>
> Thanks for any help. GGK
>
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