On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > I think this answer would be good to have on a Gentoo grub Wiki > somewhere. (If it isn't already.) There have been times I've wondered > the same thing and didn't know how to extract the data out fo the MBR > the way you did. It would also be good to add a second example of how > to get it out of a partition instead of the MBR in case grub is > installed there.
I skipped over most of this thread, I now wished I hadn't :-) Not having the previous posts handy, this might already have been answered, but I'll go ahead anyway. The way I normally do the extraction is very simple: from mbr: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/pts/0 bs=512 count=1 from disk partition: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/pts/0 bs=512 count=1 Change the of= appropriately, of course -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
