<tlaro...@polynum.com> wrote: > I guess it's on a i386/amd64 arch? Because, if my memory is right, > there is the need of the "\x55\xAA" in the two last bytes of the > first 512b block (the signature) for the BIOS.
Yes, this is amd64. The magic number is there, indeed: # dd if=/dev/rwd2d bs=512 count=1|hexdump -C|tail -2 00001f0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 aa55 0000200 -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz m...@netbsd.org