Hello, Perryh. You wrote 7 октября 2011 г., 18:06:38: >> GPT (and MBR) metadata placement is dictated from outside world, >> where is no GEOM and geom_label. They INTENDED to be used on DISKS. >> BIOSes should be able to find it :) > Certainly GPT and MBR must place an instance of the partition table > where the BIOS expects it, but there's no immediately obvious reason > why they must regard that instance as their GEOM metadata. GPT puts > a second copy in the provider's last block, and AFAICT it could just > as well use _that_ instance -- or even a differently-formatted block > that included the same data -- as the primary. MBR could do likewise. I have deja-vu, that I answered this. Please, read standard. GPT _must_ be placed twice -- at first and last sectors (really, more than one sectors). By standard. Secondary copy must be at end of disk. Period.
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