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Originally Posted by GeraldKo
It is the first sector on disk/card. As root copy it to file like:
What does one do to "save a master boot record with partition table"?
Code:
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=my4gbsandisk.bin bs=512 count=1
you can later restore it by switching if (input file) and of (output file) arguments in the dd command above
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mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 SDC 7879168KiB
this can be found by typing 'dmesg' in osso-xterm right after boot. If your card is same, here is zipped MBR. unzip it and write it to card as root
Nokia-N800-26:~$ sfdisk -uS -l 8GBSDHC.bin ... Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/233/20 (instead of 0/0/0). For this listing I'll assume that geometry. Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System 8GBSDHC.bin1 8192 15758335 15750144 b W95 FAT32 start: (c,h,s) expected (1,176,13) found (0,130,3) end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,232,20) found (980,232,20) 8GBSDHC.bin2 0 - 0 0 Empty 8GBSDHC.bin3 0 - 0 0 Empty 8GBSDHC.bin4 0 - 0 0 Empty Nokia-N800-26:~$ sfdisk -l 8GBSDHC.bin ... Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/233/20 (instead of 0/0/0). For this listing I'll assume that geometry. Units = cylinders of 2385920 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System 8GBSDHC.bin1 1+ 3381- 3380- 7875072 b W95 FAT32 start: (c,h,s) expected (1,176,13) found (0,130,3) end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,232,20) found (980,232,20) 8GBSDHC.bin2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty 8GBSDHC.bin3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty 8GBSDHC.bin4 0 - 0 0 0 EmptyNewbies click here before posting. Thanks.
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