On Tuesday 20 December 2005 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] More on mbr': > How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying > this: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 > > I thought maybe it could be mounted so:
Just how much of a filesystem do you think you can fit in 512 bytes? (Hint: this email is probably more than 512 bytes.) > Any one know what > should be in there exactly and how to view it? Have you tries using od or a hex editor? The mbr is mostly binary data used by the bios to locate the right disk offset, read it into memory and start executing it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
