On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:48:38 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Thanks for explaining that Kurt, I was begining to wonder which value (512 vs. 446) was the correct one. I know I've used bs=512 in the past and it worked but the Doc I referenced yesterday had bs=446 which I didn't really notice until I saw the post from Declan this morning. Between having Microsoft rammed down my throat at school and running into changes in the Linux documents like the above it's no wonder I'm constant state of confusion these days. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
