[CentOS] Moving/copying the MBR

Thu Apr 12 07:57:13 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

John Summerfield wrote:
> Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:48:36AM -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
>>> Are there any tools for working with and moving or copying the MBR?
>>>
>>> My machine has 2 PATA drives (hda & hdb) and 2 SATA drives (sda & 
>>> sdb).  The
>>> MBR is on hda,
>>
>> Actually, its on every drive.
>
> Not exactly, there is space for it, it's the first sector, but 512 
> bytes of zeroes doesn't really qualify.

the MBR includes the primary partition table in addition to the stage 1 
boot code.