On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:28 PM, jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/17/2015 06:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> dd if=/dev/sdX count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
# dd if=/dev/sdb bs=440 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
|................|
*
000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........|
000001b8
No bootloader code.
# dd if=/dev/sdb bs=4b count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
|................|
*
000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b 00 c5 1b 00 00 00 00
|........;.......|
000001c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
|................|
000001d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 |...............
|
000001e0 21 00 83 fe ff ff 00 08 00 00 af 80 e0 e7 00 fe
|!...............|
000001f0 ff ff 82 fe ff ff 1e 18 e1 e7 91 70 ff 00 55 aa
|...........p..U.|
00000200 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
It has no partition 1 or 2 entry, they're in 3 and 4.
So kinda interesting, I guess either the firmware gets confused due to
lack of a 1st partition, or it just has no fallback mechanism when the
first drive it finds has no bootloader code.
--
Chris Murphy