Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:53:41 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT - (last) call for action Message-ID: <86k5uaxo6y.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> In-Reply-To: <86zm37v4ns.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> References: <f4ek4o$i4u$1@sea.gmane.org> <4AB3C4C0-0DA1-482F-A4CD-375A53332F29@mac.com> <f4f14d$lhe$1@sea.gmane.org> <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>
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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
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