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Re: PowerPC cd status



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.. 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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