Boot Info Script

Boot Info Script is a bash script which searches all hard drives attached to the computer for information related to booting. Its primary use is for troubleshooting booting problems. For instructions see: http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net

Features

Searches all hard drives for information related to booting.
Detects a huge amount of boot loaders installed in the MBR or PBR (Grub2, Grub Legacy, Grub4dos, Syslinux, ...)
Displays hard disk layout: DOS, EFI and BootIT NG partition table.
Displays content of configuration files for various bootloaders.

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License

MIT License

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colins2 Posted 2022-02-04

Excellent script, found all the info I needed (and lots more). Just shows how durable Linux is - this script is 10 years old and worked perfectly on my Linux Mint 20.1 installation.
kelsonsasha Posted 2012-11-18

Bad realization,bootinfoscript :(
anenecen1982 Posted 2012-10-29

Very useful tool, thanks!
alsauser Posted 2012-08-04

nice and very informative software!
oid-3525589 Posted 2012-06-27

WRONG INSTRUCTIONS. file name is "bootinfoscript", NOT "boot_info_script.sh".

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop, System Administrators

User Interface

Command-line, Console/Terminal

Programming Language

Unix Shell

Related Categories

Unix Shell Installers, Unix Shell Boot Software

Registered

2009-01-08

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