Am 02.03.2013 23:22, schrieb Joe Zeff:
On 03/02/2013 01:57 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
> /dev/sda1 4096 6008309 3002107 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris
> gives enough room for the MBR, but
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> /dev/sdb1 63 24981074 12490506 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> probably does not give me enough room to fit properly a MBR
I don't think so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record#Disk_partitioning
tells us that the MBR is at the
beginning of the physical drive, not in a partition. If you'll scroll down,
you'll also see that the MBR is still
only 512 bytes. Here's what fdisk -l has to say about the first partition on my main
hard drive:
/dev/sdb1 * 63 83885759 41942848+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
I assure you, there's an MBR there because it's been there since before I
installed (and switched to ) Linux.
the problem is that Patrick doe snot understand the differnece between
MBR and the different grub-stages which has nothing to do with
partitions at all