Can i change address of Master Boot Record

[Stephan Müller]

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