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[Robert W Best <rwbest@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 29 February 2008 19:29:25 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Friday 2008-02-29 at 16:38 -0000, Robert W Best wrote:
> > > Every HD has an MBR. Yes, it is the first sector. Which one is
> > > used to boot, depends on the bios ("boot order: C, A", etc).
> >
> > To avoid confusion I restrict the term MBR to the first sector of
> > the HD that contains machine code executed to boot.
>
> In fact, you are creating confussion, because that's contrary to
> what the rest of the people understand. It is not what Yast
> understands.
The term MBR for a Sector 0 that contains no boot code, at least no 
code that is executed to boot, is a misnomer. Only the R makes sense.

> > A first sector of another HD I'd call Partition sector or Sector
> > 0. See Wikipedia's article Master Boot Record.
>
> Which reads:
>
> A Master Boot Record (MBR), or partition sector, is the 512-byte
> boot sector that is the first sector ("Sector 0") of a
> partitioned data storage device such as a hard disk. (The boot
> sector of a non-partitioned device is a Volume Boot Record.) The
> MBR may be used for one or more of the following:
>
> It doesn't say "of the first disk".
No, but the openSUSE Documentation does, in section 12.1.

Greetings,
Robert
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