document updated 16 years ago, on Jun 13, 2008
The EASIEST way to identify what's in the MBR or VBR is to run `ms-sys` with no other arguments than
the device:
% ms-sys /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 has a FAT32 file system.
/dev/sda1 has an x86 boot sector,
it is exactly the kind of FAT32 DOS boot record this program
would create with the switch -3 on a FAT32 partition.
======[ MBR ]======
dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 | md5sum
Windows 2000/XP/2003 MBR b4045732ab94f8bda5ad56fde6d24c3b ms-sys --mbr
======[ VBR ]======
dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=512 count=1 | md5sum