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Marco Gerards wrote:

> I do not remember any problem with the chainloader.  From what I can
> derive from the sourcecode, it checks if the block is a valid block
> with bootcode.  It seems to be possible to use --force to ignore the
> result of this test.
> 
> I assume you understand that --force can lead to unpredictable
> results.

Yes. Really unpredictable results. My hard disk data is complete broken :(

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Sem.