[H-GEN] Cleaning up the MBR on a /dev/hda

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:42:18AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> On 2005-11-17, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:58:10PM +1000, Robert Webb wrote:
> > 
> > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/recovery/mbr.bin count=1
> > [...]
> > [1] : I assume there's a "bs=512" argument to your first dd command
> >       which was accidentally left off, since the command as it stands
> > 			will simply fill your disk.
> 
> Surely Linux has not found yet another way to break old standard
> programs?  Every version of the true dd(1) that I've seen uses
> bs=512 as the default.  This was also true of POSIX dd, last
> time I looked.

Boneheadedness on my part---I have a stinking headache right now.  I
just tested it on a system I have here and it works as you'd expect.

Cheers,
-- 
Jason Parker-Burlingham
<jasonp at panix.com>
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