Afraid you might mess up your MBR? Back up the bootsector:
dd if=/dev/hda of=bootsector.img bs=512 count=1If anything goes wrong, you can boot from a LiveCD and restore the bootsector with
dd if=bootsector.img of=/dev/hda
Backing up the bootsector
Afraid you might mess up your MBR? Back up the bootsector:
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