[ale] My boot sector looks dead.

[Chris Ness]

Chris Ness wrote:
> 
> "Jeremy T. Bouse" wrote:
> >
.<Major><Minor> so my boot sector for my first partition on my first
> > IDE drive is stored as /boot/boot.0301... If memory serves me right you can
> > copy this back to the drive using dd if you know the right command line
> > options... The file itself is 512 bytes...
...
> `dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512`
> 
> Instinct would tell me it was /dev/hda, but I had to un-DOS a hard drive
> yesterday and the
> `man fdisk` had specified the 1 ... and it worked. 

Major/minor 0301 is /dev/hda1 and ironicly, mine is boot.0300 which is
/dev/hda . Weirder and weirder.
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