Fix for the XP dual boot problem

[Radu Cornea]

On 5/19/2004 9:29 AM, Radu Cornea wrote:

> I tried to recreate the bad partition problem again (from the saved mbr
> sector), made sure XP wasn't booting any more and then I run in Linux:
> 
> sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H240 /dev/hda
> 
> This seems to have fixed it just like my original procedure (well much
> easier :) ). I even did a byte compare of the mbr with the one I restored
> before using those long steps and they are the same.
> 

Just a comment: the 240 value worked for my setup, but in most other 
cases the right value would probably be 255.

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Radu