From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: fruktopus@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stephan_M=FCller?=) Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:51:17 +0200 Subject: Can i change address of Master Boot Record In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5385A385.3070307@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Saurabh Jain: > Hello every one ! > > I was reading the booting process of Linux kernel. I got to know that > generally the location of MBR is first sector of the bootable device. I > want to know that whether we can change the location (Starting address ) > of Master Boot Record or not . Can we do this for Linux and Windows both. As far as I understand, you can leave the beginning (first 512 bytes - partition table) of your MBR empty (NULL). Then, the BIOS will look into your partition table for a partition with enabled boot flag. If present it will look there for a boot loader. I don't know if this is something you were looking for. Anyways, you will not be able to change the location of your MBR unless your BIOS explicitly supports that, but I never heard of such options. frukto