Boot Loader Information

[malern]

Is there an easy way to dump the boot loader information for a specific device? I'd like a program that can take a device name (e.g. /dev/sda) and tell me if there is a boot loader installed on it, what boot loader it is (e.g. grub, lilo, or something else), and any other interesting information. Similar to how "file /path/to/file" will give you some basic information about a file.

Anybody know of anything like that?

[audiodef]

I don't know of a program, but for starters you can look at the drive in fdisk to determine the file system, mount the drive, and look at the files in /. That might tell you everything you need to know. If it's a Linux system, there's likely a /boot partition. If not, fdisk might tell you which partition was made bootable and you can look at that partition when you mount it.
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[NeddySeagoon]

malern,

You can do

[d2_racing]

When I was a student, I used Winhex to learn these things

[malern]

Thanks for the tips guys!

I've also just discovered you can actually use "file" with the -s switch to get the info (i.e. file -s /dev/sda)