From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DxVD9-0004bY-6U for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:35:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DxVD4-0004XQ-HT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:35:26 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DxVCv-0004Sm-74 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:35:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxVCu-0004OD-Oc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:35:16 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DxVHV-0004XY-6I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:40:01 -0400 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3E6FE8AC71 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:28:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=ip6-localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 26 Jul 05 19:28:48 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:28:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200507242044.19861.okuji@enbug.org> <42E4E543.4060405@draigBrady.com> <42E63711.3030309@draigBrady.com> In-Reply-To: <42E63711.3030309@draigBrady.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507262128.14734.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: grub-install X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:35:27 -0000 On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:13, P@draigBrady.com wrote: > I was wondering about sectors 62 & 63 (counting from 0). > On my laptop (that had windows wiped the minute I got it), > I notice that there is a MSWIN4.1 boot record in sector 63 > (I think it actually flows over the next 2 sectors also). It is just a trace of the Windows boot sector. Once you remove Windows, it is a garbage. > Also sector 62 has the following? Is that BIOS suspend > to disk info or something, or maybe something left > over from the windos install? I don't know. If you are afraid, you can try to fill that with zero (after making a backup) and see what happens. Okuji