grub or lilo installed?
Thomas Springer
th.springer at gmx.net
Thu Dec 29 15:20:04 UTC 2005
Am Donnerstag, den 29.12.2005, 14:32 +0000 schrieb Craig McLean:
> >
> > You can read master boot record and search on it.
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=~/mbr.bak bs=512 count=1
> > then: cat ~/mbr.bak
> > the result is not very nice, but there can be read sometinh like "GRUB
> > GeomHard DiskRead Error" for grub, I have't lilo, but think there must
> > be something else in result of cat :)
>
> You might be better off using 'strings ~/mbr.bak', rather than a pure
> 'cat'.
>
fwiw
# file ~/mbr.bak
mbr.bak: x86 boot sector, GRand Unified Bootloader (0.94), code offset
0x48
Thomas
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20051229/e1d9ad28/attachment-0001.sig>
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list