From 0f727c57f5167afb3ba4262f06ca90b2f142d93d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomas M <tomas@slax.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 22:11:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use dd instead of cat, thanks to Ady

---
 bootfiles/bootinst.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bootfiles/bootinst.sh b/bootfiles/bootinst.sh
index bf94044..15b4af2 100755
--- a/bootfiles/bootinst.sh
+++ b/bootfiles/bootinst.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Setup booting from disk (USB or harddrive)
-# Requires: extlinux, fdisk, df, tail, tr, cut, cat, sed
+# Requires: extlinux, fdisk, df, tail, tr, cut, dd, sed
 set -e
 
 # change working directory to dir from which we are started
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ extlinux --install $BOOT
 
 if [ "$DEV" != "$PART" ]; then
    # Setup MBR on the first block
-   cat "$BOOT/mbr.bin" > "$DEV"
+   dd bs=440 count=1 conv=notrunc if="$BOOT/mbr.bin" of="$DEV"
 
    # Toggle a bootable flag
    PART="$(echo "$PART" | sed -r "s:.*[^0-9]::")"