__init()

Hi,
Is there any way to execute my own __init() instead of default
__init() while running an executable.

Sure you link your object file with your own instead of using the default....

gcc -c -o myprog.o myprog.c
as -o start.o start.S

ld -o myprog myprog.o start.o /lib/libc.so.6
| | |___ runtime lib
| |__________________ Your startup
|__________________________ Your program

Startup starts with a label _start. You may have to write it in assembly. It calls main() and must never return. Instead it calls exit() with whatever main() returned, to quit.

__init() is some M$ thing. Linux executables start with _start().

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Thank you.

Hi all,i want to retrieve the partition table of a primary extended partition.
My MBR partition table ,says that the LBA Partition Start sector for the extended partition is 10281600.It is the same that i find with my C code and through fdisk usage.
How can i use this value to seek(lseek) to this point through the main block file (/dev/hda or /dev/hdb) and read the partition table of the logical partition?

Thanks in advance.

Multiply by the sector size (probably 512 bytes).

Len Sorensen

Yes,the sector size is 512 bytes,but this is not the beginning of my fourth partition.Please check the code below,and if you can please test it..

mbr.c
------
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

struct mbr {
        unsigned char boot_indicator;
        unsigned char s_head;
        unsigned char s_sector;
        unsigned char s_cylinder;
        unsigned char f_desc;
        unsigned char e_head;
        unsigned char e_sector;
        unsigned char e_cylinder;
        unsigned int rs_sector;
        unsigned int n_sectors;
} __attribute__((packed));

int main()

{
        int fd;
        struct mbr s;


        fd= open("/dev/hdb",O_RDONLY);
        lseek(fd,0x01ee,SEEK_SET); /* This is the 4rth entry,extended for
me*/
        read(fd,&s,sizeof(struct mbr));

        printf("Partition Entry 1:\n");
        printf("Boot Indicator: %#x\n",s.boot_indicator);
        printf("Starting head %u, cylinder %u, sector

%u.\n",s.s_head,((s.s_sector & 0xc0)<<2)+s.s_cylinder,s.s_sector&0x3f);
printf("Filesystem descriptor: %#x\n",s.f_desc); printf("Ending head %u, cylinder %u, sector
%u.\n",s.e_head,((s.e_sector & 0xc0)<<2)+

s.e_cylinder,s.e_sector&0x3f);
        printf("Starting sector: %u\n",s.rs_sector);
        printf("Number of sectors in partition: %u\n",s.n_sectors);

        fd= open("/dev/hdb4",O_RDONLY); /* Where is this in hdb,offset??*/
        lseek(fd,446L,SEEK_SET);
        read(fd,&s,sizeof(struct mbr));

        printf("\nPartition Entry 4: Extended partition\n");
        printf("Boot Indicator: %#x\n",s.boot_indicator);
        printf("Starting head %u, cylinder %u, sector

%u.\n",s.s_head,((s.s_sector & 0xc0)<<2)+s.s_cylinder,s.s_sector&0x3f);
printf("Filesystem descriptor: %#x\n",s.f_desc); printf("Ending head %u, cylinder %u, sector
%u.\n",s.e_head,((s.e_sector & 0xc0)<<2)+

s.e_cylinder,s.e_sector&0x3f);
        printf("Starting sector: %u\n",s.rs_sector);
        printf("Number of sectors in partition: %u\n",s.n_sectors);

        return 0;
}

It is wherever the partition entry in sector 0 of hdb says partition 4 starts.

Why didn't you just print all the partition table entries above rather than just #1, especially since in this case it is number 4 you care about.

Print out the start sector number for partition 4 above and you should find the offset for the extended partition table, in the cases where partition 4 is the extended partition.

Seek to that location, read the partition table there. That should contain either just a primary partition, or a primary partition and another extended partition.

In case it had another extended partition, repeat until no more extended partitions found.

Say you had this partition table:

         start sector    number of sectors
pri1     1               10 (hda1)
pri2     11              20 (hda2)
pri3     31              10 (hda3)
pri4     41              100 (extended)

then at sector 41 you would find another partition table:

pri1     42              9 (hda5)
pri2     51              90 (extended)

Then sector 51 contains a partition table:

pri1     52              19 (hda6)
pri2     71              70 (extended)

Then sector 71 has a partition table:
pri1 72 69 (hda7)

And no more extended entries, so you are done.

C/H/S entries are entirely ignored (or should be) on modern drives. Only start sector and total sectors are relevant as far as I understand things.

Len Sorensen