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Cc: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: another gpt vs mbr (sanity) check
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on 09/03/2010 01:21 Marcel Moolenaar said the following:
> On Mar 8, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> In short, Apple bootcamp creates an invalid PMBR according to their
>>> own technote.
>> It's not only the technote, it's the GPT spec itself.
> 
> Actually, no. The spec clearly states that LBA 0 contains a
> protective MBR for the GPT format (UEFI 2.0, paragraph 5.3.1
> on page 90). Paragraph 5.2 just the background information so
> that there's something to refer to...
> 

Isn't this what I said?
And paragraph 5.2.3 clearly states what constitutes a protective MBR (as opposed
to legacy MBR).
I am looking at Version 2.3 Errata B.

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Andriy Gapon