Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:35:00 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: AA55 signature at the end of Linux bootsector |
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> I don't think anybody else in the world refers to a partition table as > a boot-sector. A boot-sector, by definition, is used to boot an > operating system. With LILO and MS-DOS's fdisk, this is called the > Master Boot Record (MBR). VAXen call this a "boot-block", and even > paper-tape calls this a "boot-record". I did not refer to a partition table as a boot-sector. I refered to the first sector of a partition that contains a kernel (Linux, DOS, UW7, whatever) as a bootsector. The first sector of the disk itself is a master boot record, which is different.
Partition table is just a part of MBR.
Have a nice day, ------ Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com/ Escalations Research Group | Email: tigran@sco.com Santa Cruz Operation Ltd |
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