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 > >
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