anyway to mount your master boot record to see whats on it??

baked · 01-14-2004, 10:28 AM

Does anyone know if you can mount your /dev/mbr to see what all is on it?
I was just curious if anyone knows feel free to respond

ac1980 · 01-14-2004, 10:51 AM

There's no filesystem in mbr, it's just 512bytes, so you can't "mount" it.
You can dump it to a file with

Code:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/path/to/savefile count=1 bs=512

The first 4 DWORD (4*4=16 bytes) contain primary partitions info, the next 496 are for stage1 of bootloaders

baked · 01-14-2004, 10:53 AM

Cool thanks, I appreciate it.