Strange booting problem

[Gordon Messmer]

On 06/25/2015 02:51 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> Is the    ;  \0 305 033     the cause of the problem for BIOS?

Possibly?  Though, I should have also suggested that you check bytes at 
0x1FE and 0x1FF:

# dd if=/dev/sda bs=2 count=1 skip=255 2>/dev/null | od -x
0000000 aa55
0000002

Those bytes are a signature that indicates that a boot loader is 
present, at least by convention, according to wikipedia :)