lennox@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) (04/09/90)
Is there a standard, or accepted place on the disk where the boot record can be found? If I read the first sector of the root partition, do I stand a good chance of finding it? The reason I ask is that I have a "Brand X" un*x box, running a hacked System V.0 look-alike. Since the manufacturer is no longer in business, hence no support, and I have not been able to uncover much documentation, I bothers me to think that if my disk were to become corrupted that I could no longer boot my system. Thus I am attempting to reconstruct a boot tape. But I need to know where to find the boot information, or at least a good place to start looking. Can anyone help? -- | reply to: lennox@shire.hw.stratus.com, Craig Lennox, Stratus Computer | | Multifinder: The Macintosh version of Core Wars | | Disclaimer: My opinions are covered by section 2b of the Gnu Public | | License and thus do not belong to Stratus Computer. |
md@sco.COM (Michael Davidson) (04/11/90)
lennox@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes: >Is there a standard, or accepted place on the disk where the boot record can >be found? If I read the first sector of the root partition, do I stand a >good chance of finding it? It's worth looking there, but there is no guarantee of what you will find. >The reason I ask is that I have a "Brand X" un*x box, running a hacked >System V.0 look-alike. It would probably help immensely if you could tell us just which "Brand X" you happen to have, and which hacked System V lookalike you happen to be running. Chances are that someone reading this news group actually *knows* the answer - without that information your guess is probably as good as mine or anyone else ....