A backup of the MBR should be stored on the hard drive

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Ansible playbook for the laptops shipped with BSF's Ideasboxes. Migrated to https://gitlab.com/bibliosansfrontieres/ansible/idbuntu

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A backup of the MBR should be stored on the hard drive #6

Open letompouce opened 7 years ago

letompouce commented 7 years ago

If someone messes up with the boot sequence, it might be handy to restore the MBR from a backup -- stored somewhere like /var/backups/mbr.dat.

letompouce commented 6 years ago

It appears that some of the Windows updates can mess with the boot sector as well. At this point there should be some way for the "end user" to repair that from Windows.

EasyBCD installed by defaut on Windows?
batch file that would add a Linux entry to the Windows bootloader?

This issue might be fixed on the WAPT side... But still, we should make a backup of the MBR, and maybe add a shell script that would help to switch from Linux first to Windows first.