> In that case, he needs a bootable DOS floppy that has a DOS version
> of fdisk on it, so he can boot into DOS and run 'fdisk /mbr'.
> I'm fairly certain that the NT/2000/XP versions of fdisk won't do
> the job, it needs to be from Win9x or DOS.
Does saying
fdisk /mbr
preserve the existing partition boundary info?
> Failing that, I've used the Debian MBR on some systems in the
> past with good results, although I don't know how he'll be able
> to compile it without a working Linux installation.
Compile? Shouldn't the .deb have a binary in
it that's usable as is (assuming he can find a
means of extracting it under Mandrake...)
Actually, if he can obtain the .deb file (I have one)
he can do this
(put .deb file in /tmp)
cd /
ar p /tmp/mbr_1.1.5-1_i386.deb data.tar.gz | tar xvzf - ./sbin/install-mbr
...since .deb files are really just "ar" format archives
containing (among other things) .tar files
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