On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying > this: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 > > Running strings on the result shows a litte of it:
There are two things in the MBR: the partition table, and the boot code. The boot code is going to be in machine code, probably built from assembler, so you will not be able to get anything sane from it without an x86 processor manual nearby. > > The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a > crippled lilo response. By crippled I mean the dread: > Li . . . . Hang forever Google is your friend: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1483.html Although, I think the description is not very clear. What this really means is that the mbr code was able to load the hard disk sectors that it was told contain the "stage2" (the larger and more intelligent 'program' that knows about filesystems and consoles and menus and the like.), but the result wasn't executable. How are you installing grub? -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
