Re: recent kernel upgrades damage mbr

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:19 +0200, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> > While we're on the subject of mbr's, how big is it?  The first 512 bytes of
> > the one I just saved is virtually empty.  So I overwrote it with a 4kb
> > version, b but that is bearing some resemblance to a list of inodes.
> AFAIK, it is still 512, by Roman's time, Caesar decided it...
> i never have read anything about something different by 512 bytes. If your 512 
> bytes are all 00x0 using hexdump, something goes wrong,
> Which is the exact command do u issued?
> 	-m
> 
Of the first block on the disk, 446 bytes are the boot code. The rest
are the partition tables.
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