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mbdump is a small utility to dump information in a multiboot or multiboot2 header in a nice human readable format. Multiboot and Multiboot 2 are (incompatible) standards that dictate the way a compliant bootloader (grub and grub2 being the most common examples) can start a compliant os.

Give the program an os image as an argument and it will print the information it finds. Note that kernel images are sometimes compressed; you have to decompress them to let this program read them. Also note that the Linux kernel is not Multiboot compliant.


This is the first Multiboot specification
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html
and this is the second
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot2/multiboot.html

Registration Date: Tue 12 Jan 2021 04:39:45 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta

 

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Version 1.1 released
     posted by andreamonaco, Sat 12 Nov 2022 03:14:02 PM UTC

A bug fixed and minor changes.  Download at https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/mbdump/mbdump-1.1.tar.gz

Version 1.0 released
     posted by andreamonaco, Tue 09 Feb 2021 11:53:06 PM UTC

Many bugs fixed. Multiboot2 is also quite tested now. Download it at https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/mbdump/mbdump-1.0.tar.gz

Version 0.7 released
     posted by andreamonaco, Sat 06 Feb 2021 05:11:22 PM UTC

I fixed many bugs and made output nicer and more consistent. You can download it at https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/mbdump/mbdump-0.7.tar.gz

Version 0.6 released
     posted by andreamonaco, Fri 29 Jan 2021 10:53:25 PM UTC

This is the first release. Please use with caution, especially with multiboot2 headers.

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