Re: DOS MBR

["G. Crimp" <ye416@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 10:55:01PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
> 
> > Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to
> > /dev/hda?
> 
> No, but if you boot a DOS floppy then you can reconstitute it by running
> (DOS) "fdisk /mbr".  Linux fdisk will not do this.  This procedure will
> not alter your partition table, but it will, of course, make Linux
> unbootable from the HD.
> 

	Unbootable, that is, if LILO was installed to /dev/hda rather than
to one of the partitions.