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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Categories

Installers, Boot

License

MIT License

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  • colins2 Posted 2022-02-04
    5 out of 5 stars
    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
    1 out of 5 stars
    Bad realization,bootinfoscript :(
  • anenecen1982 Posted 2012-10-29
    5 out of 5 stars
    Very useful tool, thanks!
  • alsauser Posted 2012-08-04
    5 out of 5 stars
    nice and very informative software!
  • oid-3525589 Posted 2012-06-27
    5 out of 5 stars
    WRONG INSTRUCTIONS. file name is "bootinfoscript", NOT "boot_info_script.sh".
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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

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2009-01-08
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