Ticket #12 (closed enhancement: fixed)
Add detection of bootloader installed in the MBR
| Reported by: | gert | Owned by: | erwan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 0.3.5 |
| Component: | menu | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Add detection of bootloader installed in the MBR.
I think it is a nice feature and not difficult to implement.
boot_info_script does this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
Look at the first two bytes of the hard drive to identify the boot code installed in the MBR.
0000) BL="No boot loader" 0ebe) BL=ThinkPad 31c0) BL="Acer 3" 33c0) BL=Windows 33ff) BL='HP/Gateway' b800) BL=Plop ea1e) BL="Truecrypt Boot Loader" eb04) BL=Solaris eb48) BL=Grub eb4c) BL=Grub2 eb5e) BL=Grub4Dos fa31) BL="Master Boot LoaDeR" fa31) BL=Syslinux fa33) BL="No boot loader" fab8) BL="No boot loader" fabe) BL="No boot loader?" faeb) BL=Lilo fc31) BL=Testdisk fc33) BL=Gag fceb) BL="BootIT NG" all other values) BL="No known boot loader"
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