How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying this: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
Running strings on the result shows a litte of it: strings mbr.img LILO LILOu)^h `UUfP fPYX I thought maybe it could be mounted so: mkdir mbr mount -o loop mbr.img mbr But mount wants to know what `type' filesystem it is. I tried a few things but really didn't expect them to work like: ext2 msdos minix iso9660 None worked of course. So can this be done? Any one know what should be in there exactly and how to view it? What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the lilo code mbr by running `grub setup' The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a crippled lilo response. By crippled I mean the dread: Li . . . . Hang forever -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
