On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Paul Reilly wrote:
> OK, so I copied a good partition map from a working system with sfdisk,
> I then re-apply it to a blank machine I want to clone it to. I copy over
> the MBR and untar whatever files Dell usually installs. Like so:
>> on good system:
>> sfdisk -d /dev/sda > disk.out
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/sda_446.mbr bs=446 count=1
AFAIK, the MBR has a size of 512 byte. Thats also the size of the
mbr backups that lilo creates (/boot/boot.xxxx xxxx=device id)
=> dd if=/dev/sda of=/mbr bs=512 count=1
Regards,
Achim Dreyer
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