boot block

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A dedicated block usually at the beginning (first block on first track) of a storage medium that holds special data used to start a system. Some systems use a boot block of several physical sectors, while some use only one boot sector. Other manufacturers use the terms boot block and boot sector interchangeably
HDF5 files are composed of a "boot block" describing information required to portably access files on multiple platforms, followed by information about the groups in a file and the datasets in the file The boot block contains information about the size of offsets and lengths of objects, the number of entries in symbol tables (used to store groups) and additional version information for the file
The portion of your disk that contains the software to enable your Operating System to start
(n ) An 8-Kbyte disk block that contains information used during booting; block numbers point to the location of the /boot program on the disk The boot block directly follows the disk label
An area of a disk having information for loading the operating system that is needed to start a computer
boot block