You're right in your idea that the MBR is located in the first sector
of the disk.  The other option is to install to the superblock of the
partition.


On 2/26/06, Gerard Snitselaar <snits@snitselaar.org> wrote:
> I've always been under the impression that the Master Boot Record is
> always located in the first sector of a disk, not in one of the
> partitions. You can change which partition is active (bootable) with
> fdisk or qparted. If the system is already dual-booting it shouldn't
> be difficult to remove Windows from the picture.


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