In this month's installment of “When Disaster Strikes”, I discuss a surprisingly small part of your computer that plays a surprisingly large role in booting and using it—the Master Boot Record, or MBR ...

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When I reboot, grub has gone to cli. After wading through that (root (hd 0,0) chainloader +1 boot), I get into Xp- low and behold, my Linux partition has disappeared altogether!

If you've ever delved into the realm of Windows/Linux dual-booting, you probably know that the Master Boot Record can unexpectedly stop working, leavi ...

He modified the assembly code in the MBR to read the state of the switch. When the Linux sleeve is on (and therefore the computer is flipped over) it boots Linux. When the sleeve is off, Windows ...

Here's my current setup: hda (Primary Master): 10GB HDD. Currently, lilo is on this.hdb (Primary Slave): 3GB Linux HDDSo, my question is this:If I:1. swap out hdb for a 40-gigger2. boot into the ...