Computer Guru Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 OK, I confess, I'm taking the easy way here... I don't feel like installing Linux, removing castrating GRUB, and putting Lilo instead. Does anyone have LILO installed? If so, can you *please* (pretty please?) provide me with an MBR dump? Here's the code to do it: dd if=/dev/hda2 of=LILO.mbr bs=512 count=1 where LILO.mbr is you might want to specify a path (such as /home/me/Desktop/LILO.mbr) Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted October 6, 2006 Veteran Share Posted October 6, 2006 ^^^ You don't want the whole MBR. :ermm: That contains the partition table, and you don't want to overwrite that with someone else's data. You may already know that, but just in case you didn't, you know.... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 Hi Mark.. Yeah.... that's true. Thankfully I'm not using this to overwrite an existing MBR.. it's for a program I'm working on, I needed dumps of the different common linux bootloaders. I have grub, just needed this. Guess no one has it, thanks anyway guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted October 10, 2006 Administrators Share Posted October 10, 2006 Yeah..... I'm so sorry, but I use Grub also..... :unsure: Barney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted October 22, 2006 Author Share Posted October 22, 2006 Thanks guys, that's a good thing-in-a-way for me then. I needed it for the now-released EasyBCD 1.5, which now supports booting Linux via GRUB from the Vista bootloader... The good news is that most people use GRUB, so the fact that that's what it requires isn't a big deal... Bad news is I still don't have Lilo support... lol. I'll be installing FC6 for a couple of days before final comes out, I'll take that to-be-formatted opportunity to get Lilo installed :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3xis Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 root@HATHOR:/home/h3xis# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=LILO.mbr bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.025916 seconds, 19.8 kB/s Is this what you want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theotherdave Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 root@HATHOR:/home/h3xis# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=LILO.mbr bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.025916 seconds, 19.8 kB/s Is this what you want? I think what he wants is the actual 512B worth of MBR... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 Yes please :) (as Dave says) It should have spit out a file called LILO.mbr to /home/h3xis/ Can you please email me it over to computerguru@neosmart.net? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3xis Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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