On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:52:46 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:04:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >> You noticed the first file (backup_mbr)? It is exactly what it seems >> but I cannot find such a file in Debian systems :-? > > One of my (home made) overnight cron jobs does this: > > dd if=/dev/sda \ > of=$DST/mbr_backup.bin \ > bs=512 \ > count=1 >> $LOG 2>&1 Good, but there is no cron job at install time :-P I mean, ideally, the installer should perform automatically a backup of the MBR for all of the detected hard disks "just in case". What the user does afterwards is not the business of the operating system (while I agree that having a copy of the MBR is a very good idea). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.29.20.15...@gmail.com
