[ALUG] Boot question

[Bill Hill]

Chris G wrote:

> However what worries me slightly is that there is presumably an MBR
> (that's what DOS used to call it) on /dev/sda which the BIOS goes to
> when the system is powered up. If I repartition /dev/sda will I lose
> this boot record?  How does this get created in the Linux way of doing
> things?

Which bootloader are you using?
Usually grub, which would mean: grub_install /dev/sda
Lilo, just rerun.
And there should be a backup in /boot/boot_mbr (or something like that)
which you could dd if=/boot/boot_mbr of=/dev/sda but only if everything
else fails and your data's safe on another drive.