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LILO question...



OK, not exactly a problem, but still a question I would like an answear
for. Why is it that throughout the LILO documentation, wherever there's a
suggestion to backup the MBR, the dd command that's given includes bs=512,
why do you need to back the partition table (i.e. why not just do 
bs=446) especialy concidering that when later on the command for 
unistalling LILO the command given is dd ..... bs=446 i.e. you only copy
the code segment without the partition table and the magic number into the
MBR...

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