title: Extracting the MBR from a raspberry Pi
body: <p>I tried extracting the MBR from my raspberry pi(with raspbian loaded on the SDCARD) as I would have with any Linux machine.</p>
  
  <pre><code>dd if=/dev/&lt;devname&gt; of=mbr.bin bs=512 count=1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, upon doing a <code>file</code> on <code>mbr.bin</code> I get the following message :-</p>
  
  <p><code>mbr.bin: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xc, starthead 130, startsector 8192, 114688 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x83, starthead 0, startsector 122880, 15400960 sectors, code offset 0xb8</code></p>
  
  <p>Why does it say that it is an <code>x86 boot sector</code>?</p>
  
  <p>[EDIT]
  I also read about the boot sequence <a href="http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi-rpi" rel="nofollow">here</a>; does the raspberry pi even use the MBR?</p>