On May 3 18:06, Eric Blake wrote:
> The limitation here is not in dd, but in cygwin-1.5.16's use of the underlying
> Window's features to access raw devices. Just because Linux has chosen
> to allow a non-block access of a block-special device (implemented as a block
> read, edit, block write seq
> Hello Blake,
I prefer my given name over my surname, but answer to both (the curse
of the dual first name)...
> >
> >Hmm - writing just 446 bytes to raw devices is not very safe. /dev/sda is a
> block-special device for a reason, and writing anything more or less than a
> full
> block at a
On May 3 19:10, Matthias Bertschy wrote:
> Maybe I should recall you that on Linux, we can safely write 446 bytes
> blocks to a raw device. Indeed, the command dd if=boot.MBR of=/dev/sda
> bs=446 count=1 works under Linux.
> I also don't understand why you are using NTSF raw devices to access th
Original Message
Subject: Re: impossible to restore MBR using dd
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 19:10:20 +0200
From: Matthias Bertschy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References:
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Hello Blake,
Eric Blake wrote:
Hel
Matthias Bertschy wrote:
> Cliff Hones wrote:
>
>> Matthias Bertschy wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Cygwin version: 1.5.12
>>> Windows XP Professional: Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
>>>
>>> I am trying to use Cygwin's dd command as a post Windows XP install
>>> command to restore our custom GRU
> Hello,
>
> Cygwin version: 1.5.12
Can't you upgrade? coreutils-5.3.0-5 is out, and requires a newer version of
cygwin. Perhaps with the latest versions you may pick up a bug fix along the
way that helps solve your problem. Also, see http://cygwin.com/problems.html
to give us more informat
Matthias Bertschy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Cygwin version: 1.5.12
> Windows XP Professional: Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
>
> I am trying to use Cygwin's dd command as a post Windows XP install
> command to restore our custom GRUB to the MBR after an unattended
> installation.
> For safety reasons,
Matthias Bertschy wrote:
> dd if=boot.MBR of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1
> -->dd: writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device
This is the proper form of the command, as far as I know. I don't know
why it's giving you the error, but I suspect that reading and writing
the raw disk is not somet
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