On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Greg Troxel wrote: > I'm slightly fuzzy, but disk layout is generally: > > 0: 1st-stage boot > 1: disklabel > 2-15: 2nd-stage boot > 16-N: filesystem No. Sector 0 contains the label. Sectors 1..15 in each partition are reserved for the first stage bootloader. The filesystem starts at sector 16. Eduardo