I've been looking around for information about MBRCheck and decided to look at a disk that I ran syslinux on to see what it claims afterwards What should I see as an sha1 hash for a disk that has been made bootable by syslinux? I remember reading that I should make a disk bootable in linux by the command dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sd[x] and am starting to think this could get ugly for a verifiable checksum for mbrcheck as I think it always looks at the first 440 bytes but from what I see the mbr.bin that comes with slax is only 404 bytes thus if there was stuff in the last (440-404=) 36 bytes it would be left un-clobbered causing a different checksum depending on what was already on the disk. I don't know what the windows version of syslinux does to make a device bootable and am asking this mailing list. The slax version of is run from a batch file bootinst.bat that contains the line \boot\syslinux\syslinux.exe -maf -d \boot\syslinux %DISK%: that it uses to make the disk bootable. I'll ask on the slax forum for the version number they used with slax 6.1.2 the version I am using. Question again is What does the windows version of syslinux do (in terms of how to run the linux version) given the following arguments \boot\syslinux\syslinux.exe -maf -d \boot\syslinux %DISK%: does it do the equivalent of "dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sd[x]" and then a syslinux on the first partition on the disk?