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Restoring MBR



R Ransbottom wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:02:02AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
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>>Before I dig out the backups, please tell me if it's possible to 
>>recreate the MBR from the information in the existing partition labels, 
>>or if there's a backup of the partition table that I can use.
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>man install-mbr
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Sorry, I don't see anything about rebuilding the partition table: there 
are options to overwrite it with a separate file, but I didn't find an 
option to recreate it from the individual partition headers.

I'm running Debian Woody, and install-mbr v 1.1.5.

TIA.

Bill





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