[ale] replacing disk sda

[Paul Cartwright]

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On 04/23/2014 01:15 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> The partition table starts at +01BEh in the first sector.  Everything
> before that is boot code and grub / grub2 installs part of itself in
> there.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
I started reading that and my eyes glazed over...

 so, sfdisk just backs up the partition table, not the bootloader code?
if your MBR got wiped out and you restored from an sfdisk file, would it
boot ( assuming your OS partitions were still there)..

I just backed up my sda using clonezilla, restored it to a new drive,
and I got booted to my grub menu.
are there other ways to backup the MBR that include the bootloader (
grub?) info?

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
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