[ale] MBR rebuilder ?

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Since you don't have a floppy installed, why not try 'loadlin' to boot 
your system?  that can be run from dos/windows and I don't think it
requires a floppy.

-Eric.

John M. Mills writes:
 > 
 > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Jacob Langseth wrote:
 > > On Monday, July 06, 1998 6:19 PM, Nomad the Wanderer [SMTP:nomad at orci.com] 
 > > wrote:
 > > > Anyone here willing to write a proggy that given a -r will read the
 > > > contents of the mbr and given a -w will write it back so I don't have
 > > > to go through the rescue disk stuff to rebuild my box?  It wouldn't be
 > > > such a big deal, but I don't have a floppy in it right now...
 > 
 > > One possibility would be to create a boot/root disk (ala
 > > ancient slackware) and stick dd on it.
 > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 block_size=512 count=1, iirc
 > 
 > (1) I expect that you mean something you could run from DOS, since
 >     (a) you'll just have installed Win@#$!! and now can't boot Linux, and
 >     (b) Win@#$!! won't allow you to get at the mbr (except 'fdisk /mbr'),
 >     which means you'll have to reboot from a floppy in any case, no?
 > (2) You _did_ make a boot floppy didn't you? For my RH4.2:
 >     # cd /boot
 >     # dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
 > 
 > I would just boot from that floppy and run lilo.  Looks about as simple to
 > me as a trick DOS utility to clean your Windows. 
 > 
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