On Mar 10, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Thanks to all the replies. Gives me some things to look into. > Also, brings up some questions, > > With the older partitions showing that they start at 63? > If there are 63 sectors per track isn't that the last partition of the > previous track? Or did something change sector numbers starting > with 0? I know that sectors on the original disks and floppies > started at 1 and not zero? First computer had 8 sector 320K > floppies.
All modern drives, 512 byte and 512e AF, use LBA. So track, cylinder, head doesn't really apply anymore. And I did find out earlier that LBA 0 is the first sector, LBA 1 is the second sector, and so on. > > Now with the partition starting at 2048? Wouldn't that also be the > last sector of the first MB. I don't understand. > Then there is were does the partition > MBR go? LBA 0 is the MBR. The MBR contains the partition map, and the initial boot code. Wikipedia has pretty detailed information on the MBR. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
