On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:37:32AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > No problem. The PReP boot scheme uses a PC partition table. However, the > bootstrap code area in block 0 that contains the table is not used. It > seems clear to me now that since the mac table allows for a PC partition > table in it (minus the bootstrap code area) it works fine for booting > PReP. The only thing that is used is that one of the primary partition > entries is set to type 0x41 (PReP Boot) and loaded with an absolute offset > and size of the image to be loaded from the block device.
Great. However, I'm still a tad worried - what about ISO? This disk is going to need an ISO superblock, a dummy PC partition table, AND an HFS table. But hey, if it's possible, we'll do it, right? Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
