robert w best czvayksapopt friday 29 february 2008 192925 carlos e r wrote friday 20080229 1638 0000 robert w best wrote every hd mbr yes first sector one used boot depends bios boot order c etc avoid confusion restrict term mbr first sector hd contains machine code executed boot fact creating confussion thats contrary rest people understand yast understands term mbr sector 0 contains boot code least code executed boot misnomer r makes sense first sector another hd id call partition sector sector 0 see wikipedias article master boot record reads master boot record mbr partition sector 512byte boot sector first sector sector 0 partitioned data storage device hard disk boot sector nonpartitioned device volume boot record mbr may used one following doesnt say first disk opensuse documentation section 121 greetings robert httprwbestnosapopt fri 08 aug 2008 063303 0000 opensuse raid 1