[syslinux] Dummy question on Syslinux and MBR

[H. Peter Anvin]

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> 
>>dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> 
> ...but that clobbers the partition table, which lives in the bytes
> following the 446-byte MBR in the first sector.

It actually doesn't if mbr.bin is short enough.  However, a better thing 
is to do:

dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1

	-hpa