hi, this is the problem: I've got a 2,5" HD with a msdos partition table and want to give it my sister for her Apple PB5300. The PB has OS8.1 installed and refuses to detect the HD 'cause the HD's MBR contains DOS information. I have no Mac or do know one to hijack.
As far as I know Macs accept and format HD's if there's
no information in the mbr, so there's one solution:
# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1
correct me if I'm wrong, please.
My question regarding parted is whether it's possible
to write an Apple partion map on the HD when it's not
in an Apple but a i86 notebook or desktop.
would an apple computer accept these HD (generated with
i86-parted on a duron with 'mklabel mac'):
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Verwende /dev/hdc
Warnung: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdc is
4200/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at
503.999M. You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry
before using this program.
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-2067.187 megabytes
Disk label type: mac
Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
1 0.000 0.031 Apple
(parted) q
TIA
Claus
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