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| From | Noob <root@127.0.0.1> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.setup, comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) |
| Date | 2011-07-23 21:25 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <j0f76i$1cb$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <4e28ac1d$0$14975$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <j0c18i$6v4$1@dont-email.me> <823k275uu87ilej6ctseh0bhp0arosf654@4ax.com> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Franc Zabkar wrote: > Noob wrote: > >>> Something trashed my MBR. Now when I boot the PC, >>> I get the dreaded "NON-SYSTEM DISK. PLEASE INSERT >>> SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" (or something close). >> >> By MBR, I meant the first sector of my hard disk drive, >> i.e. the boot-strapping code, and the table of primary >> partitions. >> >>> I had used gparted to create three primary partitions >>> (all partitions are aligned to 1 MiB, even though >>> this is not a 4K-sector HDD) >>> partition 1 : 80.00 GiB (for WinXP) >>> partition 2 : 33.75 GiB (for Fedora 13) >>> partition 3 : 765 MiB (for swap) >> >> Short version of the rest of original message : the first sector >> had been shifted by 14 bytes. Weird, right? > > ISTM that you are confusing the real, "good" MBR (ie physical sector > 0) with GRUB's "bad" MBR. The latter appears to be relocated to some > other LBA(s), not LBA 0. I got a copy of the MBR by running dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.bin bs=512 count=2 This should get to LBA 0, right? My partition table is 80 20 21 00 07 fe ff ff 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 fe ff ff 83 fe ff ff 00 08 00 0a 00 00 38 04 00 fe ff ff 82 fe ff ff 00 08 38 0e 00 e8 17 00
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Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@localhost> - 2011-07-22 00:45 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:50 +1200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@localhost> - 2011-07-22 01:26 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-21 19:38 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 16:29 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 14:28 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) g.fink@gmx.net (Gernot Fink) - 2011-07-22 04:35 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2011-07-21 19:20 -0700
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 11:00 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-07-22 05:29 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 12:01 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) g.fink@gmx.net (Gernot Fink) - 2011-07-22 10:28 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-07-21 23:33 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-21 21:26 -0700
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 16:25 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Bob Willard <BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> - 2011-07-22 12:17 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-22 18:35 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-07-22 18:41 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 14:52 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-23 02:23 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-22 19:19 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-23 20:51 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-24 16:54 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-07-24 15:29 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-27 11:36 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-27 12:13 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-27 20:48 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-28 10:43 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 00:49 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-23 09:44 +1200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 10:05 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-22 20:58 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 11:31 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:18 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 19:02 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:37 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-23 17:34 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-23 21:25 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 08:15 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-24 23:08 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 09:46 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-07-25 02:19 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2011-07-24 22:38 -0400
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 19:38 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2011-07-25 19:34 +1000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-08-03 21:56 -0700
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2011-08-04 08:15 -0500
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 01:10 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) gordonb.22upl@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-07-23 17:15 -0500
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-24 16:42 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-10-27 11:13 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-10-27 15:24 +0000
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-10-28 11:06 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-07-29 00:49 +0100
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-08-01 11:27 +0200
Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot) Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com> - 2011-08-06 10:00 -0700
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