installation issue 1

[Reindl Harald]

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


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