[pchelpers] Re: Boot Record


        Nigel, Partition Magic will do nothing with the Boot record,
however this MBR and MDR information is what I really needed. Probably
should only require the W98  or WME boot diskette right?? 
        Thanks  Cy

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:16:11 +1300 (NZDT) nigel.lemmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
> 
> Easy.  Boot from your W98 cd then run Fdisk with the switch /mbr. 
> (fdisk /mdr)  
> This re-writes the Master Boot Record.  This is the bit that gets 
> screwed by 
> the linux boot loader.  You might need to remove various non-dos 
> partitions 
> first, depending on how you had it set up with linux.
> 
> Nigel
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