Re: grub or lilo installed?

[Craig McLean]

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Thomas Springer wrote:
> 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

Ooooh. I learn something every day!

C.
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