From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 19:53:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B9016A41F; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:53:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@fnop.net) Received: from core.fnop.net (mx.fnop.net [82.102.11.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D121213C447; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@fnop.net) Received: from core.fnop.net (mx.fnop.net [82.102.11.82]) by core.fnop.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34E3690A7A; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:50:56 +0100 (WEST) Received: by core.fnop.net (Postfix, from userid 1015) id 710B4690AC5; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:50:56 +0100 (WEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on core.fnop.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO, RCVD_IN_DSBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.1.7 Received: from epsilon.local.fnop.net (87-196-57-209.net.novis.pt [87.196.57.209]) by core.fnop.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFABD690A7A; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:50:55 +0100 (WEST) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:53:41 +0100 Message-ID: <86k5uaxo6y.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> From: Rui Paulo To: Matthew Dillon In-Reply-To: <86zm37v4ns.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> References: <4AB3C4C0-0DA1-482F-A4CD-375A53332F29@mac.com> <4D7CDA24-48FE-4319-A320-C8D7165E9EBC@mac.com> <200706092128.l59LSjRs027671@apollo.backplane.com> <57F8CCC1-1841-41AE-9F82-0C87FE53BE99@mac.com> <200706101752.l5AHqdE0035954@apollo.backplane.com> <8B01C1EC-D61A-484F-B308-6D6C8EB00EE6@mac.com> <861wgjwnrw.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> <200706102143.l5ALhQut038340@apollo.backplane.com> <86zm37v4ns.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.5 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/21.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-cite-me: rpaulo MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:09:15 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT - (last) call for action X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:53:44 -0000 At Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:13:59 +0100, Rui Paulo wrote: > > At Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:43:26 -0700 (PDT), > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > > :No. > > :The first partition is the EFI GPT (0xee): > > : > > :% fdisk -1 > > :******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* > > :... > > :parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > > :cylinders=116280 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > : > > :Media sector size is 512 > > :Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > > :Information from DOS bootblock is: > > :The data for partition 1 is: > > :sysid 238 (0xee),(EFI GPT) > > : start 40, size 409600 (200 Meg), flag 0 > > : beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 41; > > : end: cyl 406/ head 6/ sector 14 > > > > I think I have it mostly figured out, but the 'start 40' in your > > output can't be right. The intel documentation says that the > > starting LBA in a PMBR record must be set to 1 by definition > > (table 11-7 in the 1.10 documentation). > > I don't know why Apple does that. Actually, I think I do. See my other email. Regards. -- Rui Paulo