In article <00030613465000.00579@Vagabond>,
Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[large snip]
> DISCLAIMER - This may be extremely dangerous and I take no
> responsibility for any damage done, hard drive crashes, power
> failures, strife, disease, mass kaos, inter-planetary shifts,
> global-thermo-nuclear war, or that coffee mug your going to throw off
> the table and break when this doesn't work as advertised. I replaced
> the first character "�" (0xfa) with a "�" (0xeb) so LILO now reads
> "��l...LILO....!.". I did it this way.
> 1) Make a copy of your LILO to work on:
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/good_LILO bs=512 count=1
> 2) Make the hacked LILO
> dd if=/good_LILO of=/hack_LILO bs=1 skip=1 count=1
> dd if=/good_LILO of=/hack_LILO bs=1 skip=1 seek=1 count=511
> 3) Copy it to new floppy (or if you're daring the hda1 assuming the
> MBR is still a DOS MBR).
> dd if=/hack_LILO of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
Is this meant to be taken serious? IIRC, the 0xfa 0xeb at the start is
a JMP command in Assembler. When the boot sector gets executed, this
jumps over the "LILO" or "whatever" strings to the position where the
actual boot code lies. If I modify that - well - I might end up in
nirvana as well.
Does the above boot for you?
> It's a stretch, I know, but I'm out of ideas.
Me too, except the strong knowledge, that the SystemSoft BIOS is crap.
A friend of mine had yet another idea what may be breaking everything.
But that would be even more heavy than my suspicions: The BIOS doesn't
look at the MBR at all ("there's only one MBR around anyway"), but
directly boots the partition marked as active. And this is only done,
when this bootsector "looks" good (where "looks" = "some stupid test").
> BTW, what does "m�isterstuck" mean?
I think, you meant "Meisterst�ck" here! :-)
> I assume "master note",
I would have translated "master piece".
> Babelfish came back with "master stucco" (I first misspelled it as
> "m�isterstruck" and got back "master jerk" which I though was more
> appropriate for the notebook).
:-)
Greetings,
Stefan.
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Stefan Bellon * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * <http://www.sbellon.de/>
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.
