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A Further Synopsis... iforone The MBR-MPT doesnothave to have an Active-Boot flag set for GRUB (Linux)-- but AFAICT windoze WILL overwrite it as soon as you...
Grant
hmmm...Ok; I think I have Twins ^^ I got Win98 on hda1-5-6 (Ext'd on hda2) and linux on hda7-8-9-10-11 (All Logicals) Boot flag is only set on hda1 atm, but I have had both hda1 and hda7 set as "Boot"
$ sudo dd if=-dev-hda bs=512 count=1 xxd -g1
Aww Crap %#%*^%... Sorry folks messy format removed $ sudo dd if=-dev-hda bs=512 count=1...
0000000: eb 48 90 01 b6 01 4c 49 4c 4f 16 05 a0 8b f0 43 .H....LILO.....C 0000010: 00 00 00 00 57 b9 e5 01 1e 2d 1b 60 01 00 80 60 ....W....-.`...` 0000020: 29 7a 47 04 b8 c0 07 8e d0 bc 00 08 fb 52 53 06 )zG..........RS. 0000030: 56 fc 8e d8 31 ed 60 b8 00 12 b3 36 cd 10 03 02 V...1.`....6.... ....... 0000170: 00 be 93 7d e8 2a 00 eb fe 47 52 55 42 20 00 47 ...}.*...GRUB .G 0000180: 65 6f 6d 00 48 61 72 64 20 44 68 plus 1 73 6b 00 52 65 eom.Hard Disk.Re 0000190: 61 64 00 20 45 72 72 6f 72 00 bb 01 00 b4 0e cd ad. Error....... 00001a0: 10 ac 3c 00 75 f4 c3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00001b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1e 2d 1b 60 cf c9 80 01 .........-.`.... 00001c0: 01 00 0c fe ff ff 3f 00 00 00 fc 8a 38 01 00 fe ......?.....8... 00001d0: ff ff 0f fe ff ff 3b 8b 38 01 29 57 79 06 00 00 ......;.8.)Wy... 00001e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00001f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa ..............U.
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Unfortunately, yes. As soon as you go over the first 4 IDE drives, you need luck. Or if you have an SATA-SCSI controller that messes with the BIOS disk order. Sorry...
$ sudo dd if=-dev-hda bs=512 count=1 skip=63 xxd -g1
0000000: eb 58 90 4d 53 57 49 4e 34 2e 31 00 02 10 20 00 .X.MSWIN4.1... . 0000010: 02 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 3f 00 00 00 ........?...?... 0000020: fc 8a 38 01 0d 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 ..8..'.......... 0000030: 01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0000040: 80 00 29 f3 0c 44 25 4e 4f 20 4e 41 4d 45 20 20 ..)..D%NO NAME 0000050: 20 20 46 41 54 33 32 20 20 20 fa 33 c9 8e d1 bc FAT32 .3.... 0000060: f8 7b 8e c1 bd 78 00 c5 76 00 1e 56 16 55 bf 22 .{...x..v..V.U." ..... 0000180: 01 27 0d 0a 49 6e 76 61 6c 68 plus 1 64 20 73 79 73 74 .'..Invalid syst 0000190: 65 6d 20 64 68 plus 1 73 6b ff 0d 0a 44 68 plus 1 73 6b 20 49 em disk...Disk I 00001a0: 2f 4f 20 65 72 72 6f 72 ff 0d 0a 52 65 70 6c 61 O error...Repla 00001b0: 63 65 20 74 68 65 20 64 68 plus 1 73 6b 2c 20 61 6e 64 ce the disk, and 00001c0: 20 74 68 65 6e 20 70 72 65 73 73 20 61 6e 79 20 then press any 00001d0: 6b 65 79 0d 0a 00 00 00 49 4f 20 20 20 20 20 20 key.....IO 00001e0: 53 59 53 4d 53 44 4f 53 20 20 20 53 59 53 7e 01 SYSMSDOS SYS~. 00001f0: 00 57 49 4e 42 4f 4f 54 20 53 59 53 00 00 55 aa .WINBOOT SYS..U.
Doing my best folks to find out the inter-operability about these things... I would like to post...
One more for fun (your style)
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:52:09 -0800, donstockbauer Now comes the "canned" speech about what's wrong with GG posting. It's offered as a learning...
$ sudo dd if=-dev-hda bs=512 count=1 skip=63 xxd head -2 0000000: eb58 904d 5357 494e 342e 3100 0210 2000 .X.MSWIN4.1... . 0000010: 0200 0000 00f8 0000 3f00 ff00 3f00 0000 ........?...?...
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