On Tue 03 Aug 2010 at 14:28:46 (-0300 UTC) Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/08/03 14:07 (GMT-0300) Marco Calistri composed:
I'm going to format my Windows partition: I have a dual boot Vista/openSUSE-11.2 system onto a single 250GB HDD. I wish to use that space as additional linux archiving volume.
Before to proceed, wonder if exist a *certified way* to verify where Grub installation is located: disk-MBR or disk-partition.
Certified? Don't know.
# dd if=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 # for MBR on disk 1 # dd if=/dev/sdb10 bs=446 count=1 # for partition 10 on disk 2
Those will dump relevant portion of contents of indicated devices' first sectors to screen. If output includes string "GRUB" somewhere, then you know Grub's there. Screen may scramble, so you'd need to log out and back in or maybe init 2; init <whatever> to continue. Felix,
Thank you, I will give it a try. Cheers, Marco -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org