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
Thomas