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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/23/2014 11:13 AM, Preston wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/23/2014 9:35 AM, Paul Cartwright
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/23/2014 10:29 AM, Preston
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here's one of the mbr-backups.<br>
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pboyington@openmediavault:/media/3b7fcae9-905e-4863-91fb-ddfee3396254/Data/fsarchive-backup$
cat mbr-backup-2014-04-15.bak<br>
# partition table of /dev/sdf<br>
unit: sectors<br>
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/dev/sdf1 : start= 63, size=224845677, Id=83, bootable<br>
/dev/sdf2 : start=224845740, size= 9590805, Id= 5<br>
/dev/sdf3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0<br>
/dev/sdf4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0<br>
/dev/sdf5 : start=224845803, size= 9590742, Id=82<br>
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maybe you were expecting a hex output like dd does? this is
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then I guess I misunderstood what is in an MBR:)<br>
there is nothing there about grub, or what OSes can be booted,
just the partition start/end/sizes.. I guess I'm getting
edumacated:)<br>
where does the grub info go in the MBR??<br>
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GRUB is a boot loader and is in your /boot directory
(/boot/grub/).<br>
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From what little I remember, your MBR just lists the device,
starting point, number of sectors, partition type, and whether it
is bootable. It doesn't include logical partitions as they are
described within the extended partition.<br>
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So your MBR just tells your machine to look at the bootable
partition and from there GRUB takes over.<br>
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well that sorta makes sense, except mine shows:<br>
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/dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 80262, Id=de<br>
/dev/sda2 : start= 81920, size= 30191616, Id= 7, bootable<br>
/dev/sda3 : start= 30273536, size=1595568128, Id= 7<br>
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and my windows 7 is sda3. sda2 is the dell recovery partition.. sdb
shows no bootable partitions, yet I have 2 linux OS partitions..<br>
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587</pre>
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