Bug 105828 - provide fixmbr command
Summary: provide fixmbr command
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P5 - None : Enhancement
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Assignee: Torsten Duwe
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Reported: 2005-08-19 13:06 UTC by Ludwig Nussel
Modified: 2016-04-15 09:01 UTC (History)
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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