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Re: Does core.img have a magic signature?
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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Re: Does core.img have a magic signature? |
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Wed, 1 Jun 2016 22:29:41 +0300 |
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01.06.2016 20:12, Mike Fleetwood пишет:
> Hi,
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> I would like to know if it is possible to recognise core.img when
> written to a disk, especially written to a BIOS Boot partition (type
> GUID 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649)? Is there a signature that
> can be checked?
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Not really. You can look at bootinfoscript that contains some heuristic
to detect and parse core.img. Having self-identifying core.img would
actually be good.
https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript
> I'm a GParted developer and I am investigating being able to detect and
> report such partitions containing core.img.
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> Thanks,
> Mike
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