A special structure starting from offset
<literal>0x1be
</literal> in the
<acronym>MBR
</acronym> is called the
<emphasis>partition table
</emphasis>. It has four records of 16 bytes each, called
<emphasis>partition records
</emphasis>, which represent how the hard disk is partitioned, or, in FreeBSD's terminology, sliced. One byte of those 16 says whether a partition (slice) is bootable or not. Exactly one record must have that flag set, otherwise
<filename>boot0
</filename>'s code will refuse to proceed.