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On Saturday 27 February 2010 18:20:24 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Saturday 27 February 2010, BRM wrote: |
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> > Stage 1 focuses solely on loading Stage 2, |
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> > and has historically been limited to a total size[1] to 512 bytes, |
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> It's actually less than that, because the first 64 bytes of sector 0 |
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> contain the partition table, so the maximum size of a stage1 bootloader is |
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> 510 - 64 = 446 bytes. |
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Yep, that's why dd if=/dev/sda of=~/partition_table.img bs=446 count=1 will |
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make you a nice back up of your partition table, while bs=512 will back up |
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your complete MBR. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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