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2009 Mar 30
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[PATCH 0/1] Add Diagnostic MBR for trouble-shooting
To help users diagnose boot errors, especially with external devices such as USB flash memory mass-storage, I've created this diagnostic MBR. It succinctly reports the values received from the BIOS, locates and reads the active partition boot sector, reports the magic bytes and and read-sector error code. Holding down a shift key during boot will force CHS mode even if LBA is detected. Detailed information on reported data and usage is in the header commentary of mbr/mbr-diag.S; here is an example: DIAG L D80h C3FFh H10h S3Fh P1 O00000020 MAA55h E00h which m...
2009 Mar 30
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[PATCH 0/1] v3: Add Diagnostic MBR for trouble-shooting
...d from first hard disk (0x80) To help users diagnose boot errors, especially with external devices such as USB flash memory mass-storage, I've created this diagnostic MBR. It succinctly reports the values received from the BIOS, locates and reads the active partition boot sector, reports the magic bytes and and read-sector error code. Holding down a shift key during boot will force CHS mode even if LBA is detected. Holding down a Ctrl key will force loading the boot-sector from the first hard-disk regardless of the BIOS drive-number in DL. Detailed information on reported data and usage is...