Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 21:31:38 +0200 From: Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT boot loader? Message-ID: <C469EA2E-E381-480B-9BEE-D0D70CE9FF15@bnc.net> In-Reply-To: <4652A81B.1070301@uni-paderborn.de> References: <f2u7pf$7as$1@sea.gmane.org> <4652A81B.1070301@uni-paderborn.de>
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--Apple-Mail-1--308363677 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed 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 --Apple-Mail-1--308363677--
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