fdisk: alternate boot code

[Toni Schmidbauer]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:22:43AM +0000, chris.p.ward at ntlworld.com wrote:
> I'd like to use fdisk and supply an alternate boot code using the -b option.  How do I save the existing boot code within the MBR so as to pass it to fdisk though?  I'm guessing I can use dd but I'm not sure how.

dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/boot/mbr.backup bs=512 count=1

hth,
toni
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