[CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

[John R Pierce]

On 6/5/2014 10:47 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is this strictly true - that only the MBR is read at boot-time?

the MBR has two elements.

A) the boot code, which is read and executed by the BIOS at boot time, 
only on the boot drive
and
B) the master partition table, which is read on any drive when its inserted



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