Anton Aylward
Is there a tool which shows the non file system stuff on the disk, what boot records there, in an intelligent (aka non-hex-dump) format, so that we can see how the bios is going to boot?
I know that the partition editors flag bootable partitions, but what is "in there"?
Anton, I think the answer to your question is no. == details Sector 0 (or "master boot record (mbr)") is what drives a standard bios boot sequence. (I don't know about efi). The partition table is in a portion of sector zero and various tools will dump that for you. But much of sector zero is a small machine code boot loader. You can of course dissassemble it, but I doubt it would tell you much. Most boot solutions (lilo, grub, windows) replace the boot loader section of sector 0 with their own code. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org