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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