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On 22.05.2007, at 10:21, Arne Schwabe wrote:

> 3. Use the GPT + MBR Format EFI Macs use. It has a normal MBR and a  
> GPT
> and the MBR mirrors a subset of the GPT. The most challenging but
> conforms with EFI/GPT

Mac OS is not even using the (protected) EFI boot partition (take a  
look at it yourself - it's empty), keeping all the EFI stuff on the  
(quite a bit harder to find) Mac OS boot partition (which isusing yet  
another FS instead of a FAT 32 FS to make things worse). And the MBR  
"partitioning" is just a protection against any OS that might not  
understand GPT partitions and threaten to abuse the medium. It is  
meant to contain _one_ partition occupying the entire disk.


Achim


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