Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
If you don't have a low-level disk editor of some type, you can either
use Bart's utilities' MKBT to read a boot disk image from the flash disk
and examine it for a valid partition information etc., or you can use
DEBUG's 'L' command to load the first sector in memory and look at
things there.
So, if I have an MBR with partition information at 1BE-1FE then it is
not formatted as a floppy emulation? I now have three or four different
ways, under Linux and WindowsXP, to examine boot sectors and MBR's! :-)
fdisk /mbr will build a partition table. There are ways to do it in
Linux as well.
No, they have a MBR, but they don't have partitions at offset 1BE-1FE of
the first sector. Rather, the bytes are used by the boot loader code
as part of launching KERNEL.SYS. They are garbage when interpreted as
partition values -- except, as I said, for the one time I got hard drive
status going on the stick.
So, if I understand this correctly, the first 512 bytes of the stick
(what Linux would call /dev/sda and Windows utilities call the MBR)
is actually the boot sector? Which is what, on a hard drive or
a partitioned memory stick, would be /dev/sda1 under Linux or
something like I: under Windows.
Thanks for the assistance in understanding this junk!
Mark
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