Re: Reading boot sector of PC under Linux

Martin Liddle wrote:

To answer my own question, I finally managed to start to think and came up with this, which seems to do what I want:

Var InBuffer: Array[0..511] of Byte; InFile:File;

Reset(InFile,'/dev/hda',512); Blockread(Infile,InBuffer,1);

OK, if you only want the raw data, sure, you can just read them from the device. I was thinking more complicated -- to get some more readable information or something ... Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/ GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/todo.html