Re: TRouble

["David B.Teague" <dbt@cs.wcu.edu>]

On Sun, 23 May 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:46:02PM -0400, David B.Teague wrote
> > 
> > On Sat, 22 May 1999, [iso-8859-1] Søren Nielsen wrote:
> > 
> > > How do I save my MBR in a file ?
> > 
> > dd if=<disk device> of=<filename> bs=512
> > 
> 
> I think that should really be
>   dd if=<disk device> of=<filename> bs=512 count=1

Dang! I knew that. This is clearly stated in
/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz:

  - make a backup copy of your MBR on a floppy disk, e.g.
     dd if=/dev/hda of=/fd/MBR bs=512 count=1
                                      ^^^^^^^
This comes from depending on memory, instead of looking "it" up
before pressing <send>.  My error could _cause_ trouble. 

Thanks for the correction.

--David

David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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