backing up the MBR

anthony hologounis wrote:

>I need to reinstall windows 2000 on hda1.
>
>My Linux stuff is on hdb and I use grub as the boot loader.
>
>I am thinking all I need to do is backup my MBR, perhaps with dd. dd
>if=/dev/hda of=saved-mbr.bin count=1 bs=512
>
>Reinstall win2k onto hda1 and then recover the saved-mbr.bin. Reboot and
>? it all works? right?
>
>
>Anthony
>
>
No. Win2k will not work if you do this!

Follow the instructions here:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

It has worked for me.

Alan