[olug] Ubuntu 10.4 boot question

[Kevin]

On linux, it's as simple as:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/home/joe/boot.mbr bs=512 count=1

But that's if you haven't reinstalled windows already.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:34, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How do I find the MBR on Windows?
>
> Googling.....
>
> --- On Mon, 7/12/10, Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Ubuntu 10.4 boot question
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Monday, July 12, 2010, 11:20 AM
>
> yeah, he's telling you to do a backup of the partition and existing
> MBR before overwriting it.  Always good advice so you can restore it
> with a liveCD if something goes wrong.
>
> Jordan
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Yes boot is on a separate partition.  Do you mean before re-installing the boot partition?
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> --- On Mon, 7/12/10, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Ubuntu 10.4 boot question
>> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
>> Date: Monday, July 12, 2010, 7:57 AM
>>
>> Do you have /boot on a separate partition? If you do, then copy off
>> the whole /boot partition using dd. Also make sure to copy off the
>> MBR.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:43, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I have an Ubuntu 10.4 live disk.  GRUB is not displaying on my machine, which was set up to dual boot.  I had to re-install Windows because it wasn't getting to a login prompt.
>>> I have one drive that has Windows XP Pro (hda1 if  you will) -- the other drive has the whole Ubuntu 10.4 on it.  I have several partitions set up already.
>>> Can I start and install and replace the / and boot partitions without loosing data OR should I boot into live mode and copy GRUB from the live disk?  If I do the latter, should I be looking in the /etc directory.
>>> I definitely do not want to lose the data (/home) on my current system.
>>> Thanks in advance.Joe
>>> PS  I also have access to a couple versions of knoppix disks.
>>>
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