5 Nov
2007
5 Nov
'07
10:01 a.m.
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.