Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 512
Arno Wagner I'm reaching a bit - and my brain is starting to hurt :-) - but I have (hd0,0)) -- I guess it's because of my GRUB 'chainloader...
Aww Crap %#%*^%... Sorry folks
messy format removed
$ sudo dd if=-dev-hda bs=512 count=1 xxd 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.000946 seconds (541273 bytes-sec) 0000000: eb48 9001 b601 4c49 4c4f 1605 a08b f043 .H....LILO.....C 0000010: 0000 0000 57b9 e501 1e2d 1b60 0100 8060 ....W....-.`...` ........ 0000170: 00be 937d e82a 00eb fe47 5255 4220 0047 ...}.*...GRUB .G 0000180: 656f 6d00 4861 7264 2044 68 plus 173 6b00 5265 eom.Hard Disk.Re 0000190: 6164 0020 4572 726f 7200 bb01 00b4 0ecd ad. Error....... 00001b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 1e2d 1b60 cfc9 8001 .........-.`.... 00001c0: 0100 0cfe ffff 3f00 0000 fc8a 3801 00fe ......?.....8... 00001d0: ffff 0ffe ffff 3b8b 3801 2957 7906 0000 ......;.8.)Wy... 00001e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 00001f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 55aa ..............U.
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...
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$ sudo dd if=-dev-hda bs=512 count=1 skip=63 xxd
0000000: eb58 904d 5357 494e 342e 3100 0210 2000 .X.MSWIN4.1... . 0000010: 0200 0000 00f8 0000 3f00 ff00 3f00 0000 ........?...?... ....... 0000180: 0127 0d0a 496e 7661 6c68 plus 1 6420 7379 7374 .'..Invalid syst 0000190: 656d 2064 68 plus 173 6bff 0d0a 4468 plus 1 736b 2049 em disk...Disk I 00001a0: 2f4f 2065 7272 6f72 ff0d 0a52 6570 6c61 O error...Repla 00001b0: 6365 2074 6865 2064 68 plus 173 6b2c 2061 6e64 ce the disk, and 00001c0: 2074 6865 6e20 7072 6573 7320 616e 7920 then press any 00001d0: 6b65 790d 0a00 0000 494f 2020 2020 2020 key.....IO 00001e0: 5359 534d 5344 4f53 2020 2053 5953 7e01 SYSMSDOS SYS~. 00001f0: 0057 494e 424f 4f54 2053 5953 0000 55aa .WINBOOT SYS..U.
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$ 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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