That looks like exactly what I need, thanks. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> google boot-info-script > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jeff Tickle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello GRUB folks, > > > > While trying to figure out a recent failure in the Ubuntu installer on a > > buddy's computer, I found that it would be useful to have a utility that > > could look at the MBR of a specified block device, determine if it is > > looking at GRUBv1 or GRUBv2 or something else, and tell me where stage1 > > thinks its stage2 is located, device and path. > > > > Is there already a utility that does this? I googled a good bit and > found > > nothing. If not, I'm not afraid of playing with a little C and looking > at > > block devices. Does anyone have a clue where I might start? > > > > I found the string '/boot/grub' looking at my own /dev/hda at address > 0x41c, > > but I couldn't find anything that looked like a device such as > (hd0,msdos0) > > or /dev/sda1 or anything like that. If anyone here could point me in the > > right direction, I'd be glad to make this utility. > > > > -Jeff > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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