Bug 105828

Summary:	provide fixmbr command
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ludwig Nussel <lnussel>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Torsten Duwe <duwe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke, jsrain
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Ludwig Nussel 2005-08-19 13:06:48 UTC

AFAIK windows has a fixmbr command which just replaces the mbr with a generic   
one (like fdisk /mbr in DOS), in case some other os has overwritten it. It  
would be nice if we had a similar simple way to do that in a default  
installation/rescue system.

Comment 1 Alexander Graf 2007-09-25 12:23:50 UTC

Wouldn't master-boot-code be like this? You could simply do a

dd if=/usr/lib/boot/master-boot-code of=/dev/sda

and should have a working generic mbr again.

Comment 2 Ludwig Nussel 2007-10-01 11:28:27 UTC

If that's all that's needed the wrapper script would be quite simple then :)

Comment 3 Christoph Thiel 2008-04-18 11:49:58 UTC

*ping*?

Comment 4 Torsten Duwe 2010-04-13 12:41:48 UTC

1.22 submitted to OBS.

Comment 5 Bernhard Wiedemann 2016-04-15 09:01:53 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (105828) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/37861 Factory / master-boot-code