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Old 08-06-2010
Backup MBR an Partition Table
hi

How can I backup MBR an Partition Table of SCO 5.0.6?
Last edited by ccc; 08-08-2010 at 01:55 PM..
# 2  
Old 08-08-2010
Can I backup MBR and Partition Table using OpenServer-5.0.7Hw-10Jun05_1800 setup CD?
# 3  
Old 08-08-2010
Why don't you tell us what you are really trying to accomplish, and if all these questions apply to a single machine.
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ccc
# 4  
Old 08-10-2010
We have 3 different SCO server in 3 countries.
One on them should be virtualized, second one should be migrate to a different hardware. Third one doesn't boot.
What about my question?
# 5  
Old 08-10-2010
All you can do is try. The first disk would be recognized, the problem may be in finding the device you want to copy to (presumably disk 2)
Use dd to copy.
Code:
dd if=/dev/rhd0a of=/dev/rhd1a bs=64k

Disk2 has to be at least as large as disk1.

I would not try this on the machine that does not boot.
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# 6  
Old 08-10-2010
Thx, but howto find the device of the whole disk?
Is it a correct way using fdisk?
Code:
scounix# fdisk

        1. Display Partition Table
        2. Use Entire Disk for UNIX
        3. Use Rest of Disk for UNIX
        4. Create UNIX Partition
        5. Activate Partition
        6. Delete Partition
        7. Create Partition

Enter your choice or 'q' to quit: 1

Current Hard Disk Drive: /dev/rhd00

        +-------------+----------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+
        | Partition   | Status   | Type      |   Start |     End |    Size |
        +-------------+----------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+
        | 1           | Active   | UNIX      |       1 | 4444904 | 4444904 |
        +-------------+----------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+

Total disk size: 4445160 tracks (256 reserved for masterboot and diagnostics)

The whole disk seems to be /dev/rhd00.

I'd like to copy MBR to a file.
BTW using:
Code:
dd if=/dev/rhd00 of=/tmp/mbr.bin bs=64k

does it copy partition table as well?

or perhaps this?
Code:
scounix# dd if=/dev/rhd00 of=/tmp/mbr.bin bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

Last edited by ccc; 08-10-2010 at 04:09 PM..
# 7  
Old 08-10-2010
partiton table actually in last 64 bytes of fırst sector in your drive
first 446 bytes is the grub stage1 bootloader

Code:
 
dd if=/dev/rhd00 of=tmp/mbr.bin bs=512 count=1
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