thinkpad-ec/scripts/fix_mbr

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
#
# The Lenovo BIOS update ISO images contain an embedded hard drive image,
# complete with a partition table.
#
# Qemu does not support disk images with more than 16 heads, but the lenovo
# disk image is created with 64 heads.  Since the MBR they used does not use
# LBA to access the disk, the mismatch between the Qemu reported disk data
# and what is in the partition confuses the MBR and causes the boot to fail.
#

use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
$Data::Dumper::Quotekeys = 0;

use IO::File;

sub mbr_get {
    my $imagefile = shift;

    my $fh = IO::File->new($imagefile,"r");
    if (!defined($fh)) {
        die("Could not open $imagefile: $!");
    }

    my $buf;
    my $count = $fh->sysread($buf,512);
    die("bad read") if ($count != 512);
    return $buf;
}

sub mbr_put {
    my $imagefile = shift;
    my $buf = shift;

    die("bad buf len") if (length($buf) != 512);

    my $fh = IO::File->new($imagefile,"r+");
    if (!defined($fh)) {
        die("Could not open $imagefile: $!");
    }

    my $count = $fh->syswrite($buf,512);
    die("bad write") if ($count != 512);
}

sub mbr_part_unpack {
    my $part = shift;
    my $result = {};

    $result->{_input} = unpack('H*', $part);

    my @fields = qw(
        flag
        start_head
        start_cysec
        start_cyl
        type
        end_head
        end_cysec
        end_cyl
        sector_offset
        sector_total
    );
    my @values = unpack("CCCCCCCCVV",$part);
    map { $result->{$fields[$_]} = $values[$_] } (0..scalar(@fields)-1);

    $result->{start_cyl} |= ($result->{start_cysec} & 0xc0) <<2;
    $result->{start_sec} = $result->{start_cysec} & 0x3f;
    delete $result->{start_cysec};

    $result->{end_cyl} |= ($result->{end_cysec} & 0xc0) <<2;
    $result->{end_sec} = $result->{end_cysec} & 0x3f;
    delete $result->{end_cysec};

    return $result;
}

sub mbr_part_pack {
    my $part = shift;

    # check sanity
    die("start cyl too big") if ($part->{start_cyl} > 1023);
    die("start sec too big") if ($part->{start_sec} > 0x3f);

    die("end cyl too big") if ($part->{end_cyl} > 1023);
    die("end sec too big") if ($part->{end_sec} > 0x3f);

    # TODO - bit munge things
    if ($part->{start_cyl} > 0xff) {
        ...
    }
    if ($part->{end_cyl} > 0xff) {
        ...
    }

    $part->{start_cysec} = $part->{start_sec};
    $part->{end_cysec} = $part->{end_sec};

    my @fields = qw(
        flag
        start_head
        start_cysec
        start_cyl
        type
        end_head
        end_cysec
        end_cyl
        sector_offset
        sector_total
    );
    my @values;
    for my $field (@fields) {
        push @values, $part->{$field};
    }
    my $result = pack("CCCCCCCCVV",@values);
    $part->{_output} = unpack('H*', $result);
    return $result;
}

sub mbr_unpack {
    my $mbr = shift;
    my $result = {};

    $result->{_input} = unpack('H*', $mbr);

    my @fields = qw(
        bootstrap
        diskid
        partitions
        signature
    );
    my @values = unpack("a436a10a64S",$mbr);
    map { $result->{$fields[$_]} = $values[$_] } (0..scalar(@fields)-1);

    my @partitions;
    for my $part (unpack("(a16)*",$result->{partitions})) {
        push @partitions, mbr_part_unpack($part);
    }
    $result->{partitions} = \@partitions;

    return $result;
}

sub mbr_pack {
    my $mbr = shift;

    $mbr->{_partitions} = $mbr->{partitions};
    my @partitions;
    for my $part (@{$mbr->{partitions}}) {
        push @partitions, mbr_part_pack($part);
    }
    $mbr->{partitions} = pack("(a16)*", @partitions);

    my @fields = qw(
        bootstrap
        diskid
        partitions
        signature
    );
    my @values;
    for my $field (@fields) {
        push @values, $mbr->{$field};
    }
    my $result = pack("a436a10a64S",@values);
    $mbr->{_output} = unpack('H*', $result);
    return $result;
}

# This function does the actual work of this script
#
sub fixup_part {
    my $part = shift;

    # dont touch it if the partition is not broken
    return undef if ($part->{end_head} < 0x10);

    # convert from zero-based index to the total count
    $part->{end_head}++;
    $part->{end_cyl}++;

    my $total_sec1 = $part->{end_sec} * $part->{end_head} * $part->{end_cyl};

    # Reduce the number of heads and increase the number of cylinders
    while ($part->{end_head} >0x10) {
        $part->{end_head} = int($part->{end_head}/2);
        $part->{end_cyl} *= 2;
    }

    my $total_sec2 = $part->{end_sec} * $part->{end_head} * $part->{end_cyl};

    # Ensure we have at least as many total sectors as before the fixup
    while ($total_sec2 < $total_sec1) {
        $part->{end_cyl}++;
        $total_sec2 = $part->{end_sec} * $part->{end_head} * $part->{end_cyl};
    }

    # convert from total count back to zero-based index
    $part->{end_head}--;
    $part->{end_cyl}--;

    return 1;
}

sub main() {
    if (!defined($ARGV[0])) {
        die("Need image filename");
    }
    my $imagefile = $ARGV[0];

    my $buf = mbr_get($imagefile);
    my $mbr = mbr_unpack($buf);

    for my $part (@{$mbr->{partitions}}) {
        fixup_part($part);
    }

    $buf = mbr_pack($mbr);

    if (defined($ARGV[1]) && $ARGV[1] eq 'debug') {
        print(Dumper($mbr));
    } else {
        mbr_put($imagefile,$buf);
    }
}
unless (caller) {
    # only run main if we are called as a CLI tool
    main();
}