On 2012/08/13 03:24 (GMT+0200) David Haller composed:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, Felix Miata wrote:
The first 63 sectors comprise the boot track on traditionally partitioned HDs larger than about 4GB. The last 62 of those usually contain nothing, but on occasion OnTrack Disk Mangler or EZDive or other mismanagement software might be found there on drives larger than the BIOS supported at installation time, or some forms of RAID info, or OS/2 LVM and Boot Manager info,
Actually, if you install Grub(1) into the MBR, it also uses that space for its stage1.5 with the FS driver, in dcr's case MBR + sectors 1-19 inclusive.
As _I_ never allow anything but PC/MS-DOS legacy or compatible code in any of my <2TiB HD MBRs, Grub didn't come to mind as I was making that list. :-(
or on Windows systems, malware.
As it turned out in this case. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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