Re: 512 byte boot.img

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/01/14 22:11 (GMT-0500) address@hidden composed:

> > From the grub2 manual

> boot.img
>      On PC BIOS systems, this image is the first part of GRUB to start. It is 
> written to a master boot record (MBR) or to the boot sector of a partition. 
> Because a PC boot sector is 512 bytes, the size of this image is exactly 512 
> bytes.

> I always thought that the 512 byte MBR also includes the Partition-Table. So 
> with the boot.img being 512 bytes and being written to the disk root sector 
> what happens to the PT?

Grub boot sector code does not occupy 512 bytes. Installation involves 
merging the existing partition table into the image before it gets written to 
the target sector so that the table will appear to have been left untouched. 
It's magic. :-)
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