| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| suomi | käynnistyssektori |
| Monikko | boot sectors |
(computing) A dedicated sector, usually at the beginning (first sector on first track) of a storage medium, that holds special data used to start a system.
This example show various components of GNU GRUB distributed over sectors of a hard disk. When GRUB is installed on a hard disk, boot.img is written into the boot sector of that hard disk. boot.img has a size of only 446 bytes.