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.