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+From Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, version 61:
+
+
+Format of hard disk master boot sector:
+Offset Size Description (Table 00650)
+ 00h 446 BYTEs Master bootstrap loader code
+1BEh 16 BYTEs partition record for partition 1 (see #00651)
+1CEh 16 BYTEs partition record for partition 2
+1DEh 16 BYTEs partition record for partition 3
+1EEh 16 BYTEs partition record for partition 4
+1FEh WORD signature, AA55h indicates valid boot block
+
+Format of partition record:
+Offset Size Description (Table 00651)
+ 00h BYTE boot indicator (80h = active partition)
+ 01h BYTE partition start head
+ 02h BYTE partition start sector (bits 0-5)
+ 03h BYTE partition start track (bits 8,9 in bits 6,7 of sector)
+ 04h BYTE operating system indicator (see #00652)
+ 05h BYTE partition end head
+ 06h BYTE partition end sector (bits 0-5)
+ 07h BYTE partition end track (bits 8,9 in bits 6,7 of sector)
+ 08h DWORD sectors preceding partition
+ 0Ch DWORD length of partition in sectors
+SeeAlso: #00650
+
+(Table 00652)
+Values for operating system indicator:
+ 00h empty partition-table entry
+ 01h DOS 12-bit FAT
+ 02h XENIX root file system
+ 03h XENIX /usr file system (obsolete)
+ 04h DOS 16-bit FAT (up to 32M)
+ 05h DOS 3.3+ extended partition
+ 06h DOS 3.31+ Large File System (16-bit FAT, over 32M)
+ 07h QNX
+ 07h OS/2 HPFS
+ 07h Windows NT NTFS
+ 07h Advanced Unix
+ 07h see partition boot record; could be any of the above or others
+ 08h OS/2 (v1.0-1.3 only)
+ 08h AIX bootable partition, SplitDrive
+ 08h Commodore DOS
+ 08h DELL partition spanning multiple drives
+ 09h AIX data partition
+ 09h Coherent filesystem
+ 0Ah OS/2 Boot Manager
+ 0Ah OPUS
+ 0Ah Coherent swap partition
+ 0Bh Windows95 with 32-bit FAT
+ 0Ch Windows95 with 32-bit FAT (using LBA-mode INT 13 extensions)
+ 0Eh logical-block-addressable VFAT (same as 06h but using LBA-mode INT 13)
+ 0Fh logical-block-addressable VFAT (same as 05h but using LBA-mode INT 13)
+ 10h OPUS
+ 11h OS/2 Boot Manager hidden 12-bit FAT partition
+ 12h Compaq Diagnostics partition
+ 14h (resulted from using Novell DOS 7.0 FDISK to delete Linux Native part)
+ 14h OS/2 Boot Manager hidden sub-32M 16-bit FAT partition
+ 16h OS/2 Boot Manager hidden over-32M 16-bit FAT partition
+ 17h OS/2 Boot Manager hidden HPFS partition
+ 17h hidden NTFS partition
+ 18h AST special Windows swap file ("Zero-Volt Suspend" partition)
+ 19h Willowtech Photon coS
+ 1Bh hidden Windows95 FAT32 partition
+ 1Ch hidden Windows95 FAT32 partition (using LBA-mode INT 13 extensions)
+ 1Eh hidden LBA VFAT partition
+ 20h Willowsoft Overture File System (OFS1)
+ 21h officially listed as reserved
+ 21h FSo2
+ 23h officially listed as reserved
+ 24h NEC MS-DOS 3.x
+ 26h officially listed as reserved
+ 31h officially listed as reserved
+ 33h officially listed as reserved
+ 34h officially listed as reserved
+ 36h officially listed as reserved
+ 38h Theos
+ 3Ch PowerQuest PartitionMagic recovery partition
+ 40h VENIX 80286
+ 41h Personal RISC Boot
+ 41h PowerPC boot partition
+ 42h SFS (Secure File System) by Peter Gutmann
+ 45h EUMEL/Elan
+ 46h EUMEL/Elan
+ 47h EUMEL/Elan
+ 48h EUMEL/Elan
+ 4Fh Oberon boot/data partition
+ 50h OnTrack Disk Manager, read-only partition
+ 51h OnTrack Disk Manager, read/write partition
+ 51h NOVELL
+ 52h CP/M
+ 52h Microport System V/386
+ 53h OnTrack Disk Manager, write-only partition???
+ 54h OnTrack Disk Manager (DDO)
+ 55h EZ-Drive (see also INT 13/AH=FFh"EZ-Drive")
+ 56h GoldenBow VFeature
+ 5Ch Priam EDISK
+ 61h SpeedStor
+ 63h Unix SysV/386, 386/ix
+ 63h Mach, MtXinu BSD 4.3 on Mach
+ 63h GNU HURD
+ 64h Novell NetWare 286
+ 64h SpeedStore
+ 65h Novell NetWare (3.11)
+ 67h Novell
+ 68h Novell
+ 69h Novell
+ 70h DiskSecure Multi-Boot
+ 71h officially listed as reserved
+ 73h officially listed as reserved
+ 74h officially listed as reserved
+ 75h PC/IX
+ 76h officially listed as reserved
+ 7Eh F.I.X.
+ 80h Minix v1.1 - 1.4a
+ 81h Minix v1.4b+
+ 81h Linux
+ 81h Mitac Advanced Disk Manager
+ 82h Linux Swap partition
+ 82h Prime
+ 82h Solaris (Unix)
+ 83h Linux native file system (ext2fs/xiafs)
+ 84h OS/2-renumbered type 04h partition (related to hiding DOS C: drive)
+ 85h Linux EXT
+ 86h FAT16 volume/stripe set (Windows NT)
+ 87h HPFS Fault-Tolerant mirrored partition
+ 87h NTFS volume/stripe set
+ 93h Amoeba file system
+ 94h Amoeba bad block table
+ 98h Datalight ROM-DOS SuperBoot
+ 99h Mylex EISA SCSI
+ A0h Phoenix NoteBIOS Power Management "Save-to-Disk" partition
+ A1h officially listed as reserved
+ A3h officially listed as reserved
+ A4h officially listed as reserved
+ A5h FreeBSD, BSD/386
+ A6h OpenBSD
+ A9h NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org/)
+ B1h officially listed as reserved
+ B3h officially listed as reserved
+ B4h officially listed as reserved
+ B6h officially listed as reserved
+ B6h Windows NT mirror set (master), FAT16 file system
+ B7h BSDI file system (secondarily swap)
+ B7h Windows NT mirror set (master), NTFS file system
+ B8h BSDI swap partition (secondarily file system)
+ BEh Solaris boot partition
+ C0h DR DOS/DR-DOS/Novell DOS secured partition
+ C0h CTOS
+ C1h DR DOS 6.0 LOGIN.EXE-secured 12-bit FAT partition
+ C4h DR DOS 6.0 LOGIN.EXE-secured 16-bit FAT partition
+ C6h DR DOS 6.0 LOGIN.EXE-secured Huge partition
+ C6h corrupted FAT16 volume/stripe set (Windows NT)
+ C6h Windows NT mirror set (slave), FAT16 file system
+ C7h Syrinx Boot
+ C7h corrupted NTFS volume/stripe set
+ C7h Windows NT mirror set (slave), NTFS file system
+ CBh Reserved for DR DOS/DR-DOS/OpenDOS secured FAT32
+ CCh Reserved for DR DOS/DR-DOS secured FAT32 (LBA)
+ CEh Reserved for DR DOS/DR-DOS secured FAT16 (LBA)
+ D0h Multiuser DOS secured FAT12
+ D1h Old Multiuser DOS secured FAT12
+ D4h Old Multiuser DOS secured FAT16 (<= 32M)
+ D5h Old Multiuser DOS secured extended partition
+ D6h Old Multiuser DOS secured FAT16 (> 32M)
+ D8h CP/M-86
+ DBh CP/M, Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS
+ DBh CTOS (Convergent Technologies OS)
+ E1h SpeedStor 12-bit FAT extended partition
+ E2h DOS read-only (Florian Painke's XFDISK 1.0.4)
+ E3h DOS read-only
+ E3h Storage Dimensions
+ E4h SpeedStor 16-bit FAT extended partition
+ E5h officially listed as reserved
+ E6h officially listed as reserved
+ EBh BeOS BFS (BFS1)
+ F1h Storage Dimensions
+ F2h DOS 3.3+ secondary partition
+ F3h officially listed as reserved
+ F4h SpeedStor
+ F4h Storage Dimensions
+ F5h Prologue
+ F6h officially listed as reserved
+ FEh LANstep
+ FEh IBM PS/2 IML (Initial Microcode Load) partition
+ FFh Xenix bad block table
+Note: for partition type 07h, one should inspect the partition boot record
+ for the actual file system type
+SeeAlso: #00651