Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Okay, 446 + 64 adds to 510, what about the other 2 bytes?
Okay this explains all the byte usage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
Address Description Size in bytes
0 code area440 (max. 446)
440 dis
Aaron Toponce wrote:
It's not that difficult, if you understand haw MSDOS partitioning is setup
under GNU/Linux. The first 446 bytes are your boot loader. The next 64
bytes are your partition table. If you wish to backup just the bootloader,
it's easy with dd(1):
Okay, 446 + 64 adds to 510, wha
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:06:09 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote:
>
> If you add encryption to the equation things can be even worst.
I assume you mean "worse". I agree. I hate full-volume encryption.
>
> While I agree that "playing" (backing and restoring) with MBR can be
> dangerous I also think th
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:50:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:30:38 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote:
>> ...
>> But regardless the option the user select at install time (do not
>> install any bootloader, install it in a partition or another place or
>> just putting it into MBR), i
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 18:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > Forwarded Message
> > > From: Tomas Kral
> > > To: Camaleón
> > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>
> > > Not sure if I am quite in the subject.
> >
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:52:53 -0400 (EDT), Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 04:50:35PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >
> > Sometimes restoring a backup copy of the master boot record can be
> > even more dangerous than wiping it out. The master boot record contains
> > the master bo
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:30:38 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote:
> ...
> But regardless the option the user select at install time (do not install
> any bootloader, install it in a partition or another place or just
> putting it into MBR), it would be nice the installer makes a copy of the
> original M
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:19:31 -0400 (EDT), Tomas Kral wrote:
>
> Not sure if I am quite in the subject.
>
> But in the old Potato days, the installer always asked to stick in a
> floppy disk to write a new MBR on it. Leaving hard drive untouched.
The maintainer scripts for kernel image packages
Hi, Ralf:
>I've got for my bullshit PC
Is it absolutely necessary to use such wording?!
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> > From: Tomas Kral
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> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> > Not sure if I am quite in the subject.
> >
> > But in the old Potato days, the installer always asked to stic
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:57:57 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 17:30 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> But regardless the option the user select at install time (do not
>> install any bootloader, install it in a partition or another place or
>> just putting it into MBR), it would be
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> Since this list allows HTML, we should use it, instead of using cryptic lines
> including the backslash.
There's nothing cryptic about backslashes.
>From the "Code of Conduct" section of http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
"Never send you
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 17:30 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:19:31 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 14:06 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> >> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote:
> >>
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:28:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> > > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote:
>> > > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this:
>
>
> Very important is "overnight cron jobs"! From time to time I backup my
> MBR manually, btw. also using dd and adding
> > Forwarded Message
> > From: Camaleón
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: restoring MBR
> > Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:06:14 + (UTC)
> > > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote:
> > >>>
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:19:31 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 14:06 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote:
>> > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this:
>> >
>
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 14:06 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>
> > On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote:
> > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sda \
> > of=$DST/mbr_backup.bin
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:14:17 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote:
> One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda \
> of=$DST/mbr_backup.bin \
> bs=512 \
> count=1 >> $LOG 2>&1
>
>
Hi,
On Sat, July 30, 2011 6:40 am, Camaleón wrote:
One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this:
dd if=/dev/sda \
of=$DST/mbr_backup.bin \
bs=512 \
count=1 >> $LOG 2>&1
Okay, well this script isn't perfect and it sure won't help after t
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 06:27:18PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
> > internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it
> > has encryption software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. Is the
> > backup
On 29/07/11 21:28, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
> internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it
> has encryption software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. Is the
> backup of the MBR ava
Hi All,
What about the mbr package and the "install-mbr " command ?
This MBR is wonderfull, it does exactly what is waited if you dont press
any key : boot on the flaged partition, but you can also press a key and
choose another partition (not flagged) to boot from (even a floppy).
Have a nice
2011/7/30 Stephen Powell :
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:34:44 -0400 (EDT), Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
>>
>> That's a pity. IIRC, lilo used to save that under /boot.
>
> It still does. And lilo is still available. And I still use it.
> Unfortunately, it's too late for the OP in this case.
>
> --
> .''
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:34:44 -0400 (EDT), Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
>
> That's a pity. IIRC, lilo used to save that under /boot.
It still does. And lilo is still available. And I still use it.
Unfortunately, it's too late for the OP in this case.
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On 30/07/11 21:34, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 03:38:14PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>> I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
>>> internal hard drive.
>>
>> Curious. I've never had that problem when installing Squeeze to a USB
>> drive.
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 03:38:14PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
> > internal hard drive.
>
> Curious. I've never had that problem when installing Squeeze to a USB
> drive. Can you boot from the USB drive?
IIRC, no.
>
On 29/07/11 21:28, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
> internal hard drive.
Curious. I've never had that problem when installing Squeeze to a USB
drive. Can you boot from the USB drive?
> Now I can't boot from the int
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:10:50 +0100
Brian wrote:
> On Fri 29 Jul 2011 at 13:28:48 +0200, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
>
> > I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself
> > to the internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal
> > drive since it has encryption software
On Fri 29 Jul 2011 at 13:28:48 +0200, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
> internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it
> has encryption software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. Is the
> backup of the
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:22:38 +, Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:15:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:52:46 +, Walter Hurry wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:04:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
You noticed the first file (backup_mbr)? It
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:15:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:52:46 +, Walter Hurry wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:04:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>>> You noticed the first file (backup_mbr)? It is exactly what it seems
>>> but I cannot find such a file in Debian
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:52:46 +, Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:04:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> You noticed the first file (backup_mbr)? It is exactly what it seems
>> but I cannot find such a file in Debian systems :-?
>
> One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does t
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:04:42 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:28:48 +0200, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
>
>> I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to
>> the internal hard drive.
>
> And what OS does the internal hard drive have?
>
>> Now I can't boot from
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:28:48 +0200, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
> internal hard drive.
And what OS does the internal hard drive have?
> Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it has encryption
> software checking s
Baurzhan Ismagulov writes:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
> internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it
> has encryption software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. Is the
> backup of the MBR available somew
Hello,
I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it
has encryption software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. Is the
backup of the MBR available somewhere in the Linux rootfs?
Please cc to me, I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
boot into linux (a rescue CD / Knoppix, however)
as root try
# dd -if =/dev/zerol -of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
You're making up command options, as well as devices now?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
--- Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> boot into linux (a rescue CD / Knoppix, however)
> as root try
>
> # dd -if =/dev/zerol -of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
You're making up command options, as well as devices now?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
*BUT* even then, that
boot into linux (a rescue CD / Knoppix, however)
as root try
# dd -if =/dev/zerol -of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10
This will totally blank the first 5K of space on the drive. The
"leftovers" from
the linux boot loader sometimes confuse Windows' installer.
Pat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have two hard
--- Paul Maser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and tried a lilo -U, but nothing has worked.
Read: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/LostLILO
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I have two hard disks that I used for linux and now I'm trying to
use them with Windows, but with both drives the computer (Dell)
cannot see the hard drive as bootable. It comes up with the error
message "Primary hard disk drive cannot be found."
The BIOS recognizes the hard drive and I can instal
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