On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:47:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:02:11PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > The HFS partition isn't at block 0 on the media is it? That's where the > > > PReP header (which is merely a PC partition table) sits. PReP firmware > > > reads the first two 512 byte blocks on the media, looks up an entry in > > > that header which contains an absolute offset to the start of an image, > > > and then reads it in and vectors to it. > > > > Er... I think it might be. I'll ask Troy how he did it. > > there is a fake apple partition table on block 1 and 2 then there is > 14 padded blocks, and the HFS/ISO hybrid partition starts on block > 16. at least that is how it looks to me. normal apple partition > tables have enough room for a PC partition table to be there too..
Then there shouldn't be a problem. Of course I have this vague memory of a Block0 on HFS disks... Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
