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Copying MBR with images?

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Name: Leo the 28C (by Sulfurik)
Date: February 3, 2007 at 16:06:41 Pacific
Subject: Copying MBR with images?
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Hello everyone! :-D
(I'm not sure if this is the right forum, so sorry if it's not)
OK, so I copied an image of Slax Linux (live CD) into my flashdrive. That worked fine. Then I added some of my own files to it and deleted Slax after a while so I could try ReacOS (another live CD).
This time, however, since I have files on the drive, I didn't write the image itself, instead I just copied the files to it.
When I booted, Slax's boot prompt was still there... Is there any way to copy the MBR from an image to a drive? I remember doing this with floppies, but I can't remember with what program... WinImage maybe? How?
Thanks! ;-)
-- Leo

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Response Number 1

Name: wollachee
Date: February 7, 2007 at 08:46:57 Pacific
Subject: Copying MBR with images?

Reply: (edit)

dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/usbdevice bs=512 count=1
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Response Number 2

Name: Leo the 28C (by Sulfurik)
Date: February 20, 2007 at 00:48:30 Pacific
Subject: Copying MBR with images?

Reply: (edit)

I'm assuming the bs=512 part means the MBR is on the first 512 bytes? Thanks! ;-)
-- Leo

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