THIS AT HOME!!! (if you don't know what are you doing) All these steps have been done on my virtual machine debian (called elisabetha in Dracula 's wife honor). I extract the boot loader: elisabetha:~# dd if=/dev/sda of=BOOT_LOADER.ORIG bs=466 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 466 bytes (466 B) copied,