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From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 09:34:12 -0500
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location?
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:28:16AM -0500, joe fresh wrote:
> Isn't this as simple as:
> 
> grub-install /dev/sda
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda1 bs=512 count=1
> followed by restoring DOS MBR... ?

sda1 might not like having it's first sector overwritten.

-- 
Len Sorensen