Re: GRUB master boot record

Navid Shakibapour <navid.shakibapour@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Like the Boot Records of an OS, the first three bytes could be called
the Jump Instruction. But only the first two bytes are being used to
form the actual JMP (Jump) instruction to the rest of the executable

I asked on another newsgroup if there was any particular reason to
post that. But multiple postings to several groups? What possible
reason could there be for that?
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