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Re: restoring MBR



On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:26:30PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Aaron Toponce wrote:
> >It's not that difficult, if you understand haw MSDOS partitioning is setup
> >under GNU/Linux. The first 446 bytes are your boot loader. The next 64
> >bytes are your partition table. If you wish to backup just the bootloader,
> >it's easy with dd(1):
>
> Okay, 446 + 64 adds to 510, what about the other 2 bytes?

The MBR signature, as you just discovered. :)

--
. o .   o . o   . . o   o . .   . o .
. . o   . o o   o . o   . o o   . . o
o o o   . o .   . o o   o o .   o o o

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