-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/7/2013 2:21 AM, Avik Sil wrote: > From: Daniel Battaiola Kreling <dbkrel...@br.ibm.com> > > PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) boot partition is the first > partition used in PowerPC platform for containing the bootable > kernel or bootloader. The firmware searches for this partition and > jumps to it for booting. So far no GUID was specified for this > partition type and hence booting from GPT disk was not supported on > this platform. A new GUID 9e1a2d38-c612-4316-aa26-8b49521e5a8b for > PReP partition is proposed to be included in GPT.
Doesn't this old platform only understand the apple partition map, and not gpt? Picking a guid out of the air isn't going to teach the firmware to look for it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSUsViAAoJEJrBOlT6nu758P4H/2MU62HZPrEGb7RJMYcsec3T wDsMn1sJClyMVirDbAXqt5GUuO2Of8RnYzOj3HJWc8xa1lYJwyXlmoR/4KqJ0s8V WDjH8ldGO4mYZMxRXE2KdBAfUOPRE5cTAeWC2gzPWcKtZmIs/dmMc8/N6Es8FBwL fLgYr727JdHwVwwK+cXdwk+bb5P5oQHZ9uueeyvzT3yi4DZUe0nKHHOW4GhsBHWj cYqRxZ9sgHHerOQE2UY+MC1CLDMQrM21lO37sopn9XHRb6W+pe+ceHX55ZGYZ54X gU16J4zS4mNTTgsrep5jeicv/7B+bDOkoej8ACG8CbbkwNaAiJSzcEH/Q+FLuno= =4dPe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
