On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jeff Tickle <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello GRUB folks,
>
> While trying to figure out a recent failure in the Ubuntu installer on a
> buddy's computer, I found that it would be useful to have a utility that
> could look at the MBR of a specified block device, determine if it is
> looking at GRUBv1 or GRUBv2 or something else, and tell me where stage1
> thinks its stage2 is located, device and path.
>
> Is there already a utility that does this? I googled a good bit and found
> nothing. If not, I'm not afraid of playing with a little C and looking at
> block devices. Does anyone have a clue where I might start?
>
> I found the string '/boot/grub' looking at my own /dev/hda at address 0x41c,
> but I couldn't find anything that looked like a device such as (hd0,msdos0)
> or /dev/sda1 or anything like that. If anyone here could point me in the
> right direction, I'd be glad to make this utility.
>
> -Jeff
>