On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Alain Knaff wrote:
One method is to run a "hexdump -n 512 /dev/hda" on the disk at various stages of the duplication. This prints out a hexdump of the first 512 bytes. Then just check whether the 7 bytes have their "good" state or the changed state.
N.B. You can run this command right after the udp-receive without rebooting by pressing Alt-F2 and pressing return. This gives you a shell where you can run various commands. You can get back to the menu with Alt-F1
I'm using a PXEboot initrd generated today and with the 2.4.26 linux kernel. I checked the box to include a built in shell. When activated it reports itself as Busybox 1.00-pre10 running msh. I have not had much luck with the built in shell. help works and it reveals only these commands are available: break cd continue eval exec exit export help login newgrp read readonly set shift times trap umask wait I tried the hexdump command you mention with or without busybox in front and it reports not found. Basic stuff like 'ls' is also not found. I get the feeling I'm doing something wrong.