Boot Info Script : Project Web Hosting - Open Source Software Boot Info Script Download the Boot Info Script Users Ask for Help (Forum) Discuss the script (Forum) Report a bug (Tracker) Solutions to some boot problems. (Wiki) *bootinfoscript* is a bash script which searches all hard drives attached to the computer for information related to booting and displays it in a convenient format. Its primary use is for troubleshooting booting problems. How to use the bootinfoscript * Boot into any Linux based operating system, LiveCD or LiveUSB with an Internet connection. * Download the last version of Boot Info Script * Extract the tarball to a directory of your choice (e.g.: your *Downloads* directory). * Open a *terminal* (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal in Gnome2) and type : sudo ~/Downloads/bootinfoscript * If your operation system does not use sudo, use: su - ~/Downloads/bootinfoscript * You will now have the file RESULTS.txt in the same directory as the script. But if the script is inside a system directory (like /usr or /etc) RESULTS.txt will be in the home directory. * If you already have an existing RESULTS.txt, subsequent files will be called RESULTS1.txt, RESULTS2.txt,... * Open RESULTS.txt in your favorite text editor. * If you came here from a Linux forum, paste the content of RESULTS.txt into your next post. Make sure to use the appropriate formating. For example in the Ubuntu forums click on the code tags (the symbol #) before pasting RESULTS.txt. Help text of bootinfoscript $ ./bootinfoscript --help Usage Boot Info Script: ----------------------- Run the script as sudoer: sudo ./bootinfoscript or if your operating system does not use sudo: su - ./bootinfoscript When running the script, without specifying an output file, all the output is written to the file "RESULTS.txt" in the same folder as the script. But when run from /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, or another system folder, the file "RESULTS.txt" is written to the home directory of the user. When the file "RESULTS.txt" already exists, the results will be written to "RESULTS1.txt". If "RESULTS1.txt" exists, the results will be written to "RESULTS2.txt", ... To get version number, release date, last git commit and git retrieval date of this script, use (no root rights needed): ./bootinfoscript -v ./bootinfoscript -V ./bootinfoscript --version To get this help text, use (no root rights needed): ./bootinfoscript -h ./bootinfoscript -help ./bootinfoscript --help To automatically gzip a copy of the output file, use (root rights needed): ./bootinfoscript -g ./bootinfoscript --gzip To write the output to stdout instead of a file, use (root rights needed): ./bootinfoscript --stdout The last development version of Boot Info Script can be downloaded, with: (no root rights needed) ./bootinfoscript --update If no filename is specified, the file will be saved in the home dir as "bootinfoscript_YYYY-MM-DD_hh:mm:ss". Developers Join this project: To join this project, please contact the project administrators of this project, as shown on the project summary page . Boot Info script is hosted at Get Boot Info Script at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and Free Open Source software downloads About - Legal - Help