On 2013-01-12 20:51 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed:

squareyes wrote:

root@ubuntu:~# dd if=/usr//share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
dd: opening `/usr//share/syslinux/mbr.bin': No such file or directory

If ...usr//share... is the way it was typed it couldn't be expected to work.

squareyes@squareyes:~$ whereis syslinux
syslinux: /usr/bin/syslinux /usr/lib/syslinux /usr/bin/X11/syslinux 
/usr/share/man/man1/syslinux.1.gz

find / -name mbr.bin 2>/dev/null

On openSUSE it's /usr/lib/boot/MBR 440 bytes, and /usr/lib/boot/master-boot-code 512 bytes, the former replacement code only, the latter to initialize a HD to no partitions plus MBR code.
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