John R Pierce wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: >> Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:48:36AM -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: >>>> Are there any tools for working with and moving or copying the MBR? >>>> >>>> My machine has 2 PATA drives (hda & hdb) and 2 SATA drives (sda & >>>> sdb). The >>>> MBR is on hda, >>> >>> Actually, its on every drive. >> >> Not exactly, there is space for it, it's the first sector, but 512 >> bytes of zeroes doesn't really qualify. > > the MBR includes the primary partition table in addition to the stage 1 > boot code. except when the drive's not partitioned. New drives are not, and I don't know a reason you must: I'm sure this will work fine: mke2fs /dev/hda -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list