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 -- http://rwbest.no.sapo.pt/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org