Re: [LI] Laptop Woes

["Bilal Muddassir" <noorh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can peel off the first 512 bytes of your Linux root partition with
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/bootsector bs=512 count=1
and then use a hex editor to open the file

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sunil Thomas T <s_thoams@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [LI] Laptop Woes


> 
> 
> --- Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Could you post the hex dump of the first 512 bytes
> > of your disk ?
> > You can boot Linux using floppies or the Redhat CD,
> > drop to a 
> > command prompt and do od -x on /dev/hda.
> > 
>  
>  Hi 
>    this will dump your entire /dev/hda. Is there any
> other utility for taking  hex dump of your important
> system areas 
>    Sunil
> 
>    
> 
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