Steve Tompkins-MacQueen wrote:
I would not have thought so: The partition table is not part of the MBR (I belive)
I believe it is, which is why with MBR you only have four physical partitions (space constraint).
From memory the first 440 bytes of the disk are the boot info and the rest up to 512 is the partition table hence you see qualified dd commands with 440 block limits to retain the partition table.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record seems to agree with my memory.
On Mark's point, there are some instances of writng to a partition eg of=/dev/sdc1 but again I find different tutorials wanting to format the partition in particular ways when my expectation is the img file (or in this case Mac dmg file from a DVD) is just going to rewrite the data at the lowest level anyway. As you say, maybe they are wrong or it's superfluous information / unnecessary steps.
Why does this matter ? well when things don't work I go looking for causes and possible errors and this struck me as an inconsistency.
I'll move on now and try a different tutorial from beginning to end :-) Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
