On January 02, Myles Green enlightened our ignorance thusly: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:49 -0700
[deletia] > As Ian pointed out, you can do this with LiLo itself or here's another > one from the lilo mini-howto that will work as well (I can verify this > as I've used it more than once with success): > > dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 The reason bs=446 is correct is that boot loaders use the first 446 bytes of the MBR. The next 64 bytes contain the partition table. The last 2 bytes store a magic number typically used to store a value that confirms that the indicated sector is a boot sector. [more deletia] K -- You will win success in whatever calling you adopt. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
