Re: GPT - (last) call for action

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.
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Rui Paulo