Subject
Computer Science
Topic
Computer Fundamental
In a traditional legacy BIOS boot from an MBR-partitioned disk, which sector is read first for boot code?
In a traditional legacy BIOS boot from an MBR-partitioned disk, which sector is read first for boot code?
a)
Master Boot Record (MBR)b)
Last sector of the diskc)
Any random sectord)
RAM refresh sectorExplanation
Legacy BIOS boot traditionally reads boot code from the disk's Master Boot Record.Related questions
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