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Just had first look at MBR and its three fields. Understood BS(Boot Sector) and PT(Partition Table) but what the heck it MN(magic no) the remaining two bytes????
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- 05-27-2009 #1Linux User
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Mbr(446|64|2)
Just had first look at MBR and its three fields. Understood BS(Boot Sector) and PT(Partition Table) but what the heck it MN(magic no) the remaining two bytes????
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<----------446 bytes----------------> |<------64 bytes--->|<--2 bytes-->|
BS | PT | MN |
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What is the use of MN ????Only if I could understand the man pages
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- 05-27-2009 #2Super Moderator
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Its MBR signature. Like Hard disk signature, it doesn't have much practical value.
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- 05-29-2009 #3Just Joined!
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it means that the active partition
just like 1 for active and 0 means deactive. which os can understand.
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are these (00 and 01) the only value??
Only if I could understand the man pages
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