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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: <bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu>, <wah2 AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Need a Boot Sector Saver
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:24:29 +0200
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> >    Searching through the mail archives, I found very easy to
understand, step 
> >by step instructions on how to use GRUB to set up OpenDOS and Win95 on
the same 
> >partition.  I'm just having trouble with one of the steps. It says to
"use some 
> >tool to save the boot sector." Using an internet search, I found one,
but the 
> >file it created wasn't the right format for GRUB.  Where can I get one
that 
> >will?
> 
> There is one good way, but you may not want to use it, nescessarily; you 
> can download FIPS and run it, and use it to save your boot sector, then 
> abort before you actually repartition. It might be clumsy, but it's quick

> and it's all I've found so far.

This is a method which uses DOS's debug command.
it was posted on the mailing list in the very beginning (I think), when
everybody tried to run MS-DOS and OpdenDOS on the same system, only to find
out, it was (almost) impossible.

C:\> DEBUG
-l 100 2 0 1
-rcx
CX 0000
:200
-n MSDOS.MBR
-w 100
Writing 00200 bytes
-q

		Yeep