On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 08:20:41PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote: > Formerly (that is before Linux was born...) DOS fdisk was usefull for > reparing damaged MBR. > I am wondering why there is no MBR option in Linux fdisk ? > I agree that MBR is rarely distroyed nowadays. > However I can rember of one case when a Linux disk would not boot any more. > Steps to recover from this situation are not obvious for me. backup: dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 restore: dd if=mbr.img of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (or cat mbr.img > /dev/sda) if you don't have a backup image than you can try to use http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
