> On any other distribution find a system with a sane mbr and run:
> dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
>> On the system, that has a problem with the mbr you can then write this
> mbr to the disk:
> dd if=mbr.img of=/dev/sda
>> That's basically the only way to do it on Linux, as least, what i know
> of.
Don't do this. You'll replace the partition table on the second
machine with a copy of the partition table from the first.
Or, if you do do this, keep a copy of the old partition details
and manually re-create them after overwriting it.
Later,
Kenn
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