[Nottingham] Which Bootloader?

Paul Sladen notlug at paul.sladen.org
Mon Mar 8 22:06:22 GMT 2004


On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Johannes Kling wrote:
> I tried "dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 | strings" with some success on
> some systems, but that doesn't strike me as the most reliable way

Personally I'd say that it /is the most reliable way/, since you can't get
much more accurate than reading what's actually written to the disk and is
going to get booted!

	-Paul
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