mvm212: best idea is use fdisk /dev/diskx where x is the drive and take a screenshot and save that somewhere
[11:34am] [R]oYsToN: anyone got good video player to recommend besides VLC
[11:34am] gburnham: so basically i would be manually rewriting my mbr with dd? time to grab some dd documentation
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[11:34am] mvm212: yup
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[11:35am] gburnham: it kills me that 10.5 doesn't accept blank passwords for root passwords
[11:35am] gburnham: bleck
[11:35am] mvm212: to nix your mbr, do dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/diskx bs=512 count=1
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[11:35am] mvm212: if = inputfile of=output file
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[11:36am] mvm212: to backup your mbr do dd if=/dev/diskx of=mbrbackup.bin bs=512 count=1
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[11:36am] mvm212: to restore "dd if =mbrbackup.bin of=/dev/diskx bs=512 count = 1"
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[11:36am] gburnham: wow, nice, thanks, this is helping a lot
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[11:36am] gburnham: http://pastebin.ca/791158 there is my MBR table heh
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[11:37am] gburnham: simple
[11:37am] mvm212: only problem I can think of though with this strategy is how to reload the bootloader
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[11:37am] gburnham: well, i have the script.sh on the dvd that reloads it
[11:37am] mvm212: ok, so you can boot from the dvd
[11:37am] mvm212: cool
[11:38am] mvm212: easy partition tabl