[root@logout tmp]# dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 | strings
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 5.7e-05 seconds, 9.0 MB/s
LILO
ZRrI
D|f1
GRUB
Geom
Hard Disk
Read
 Error
[root@logout tmp]#