Re: PowerPC cd status
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:47:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 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..
Then there shouldn't be a problem. Of course I have this vague memory
of a Block0 on HFS disks...
Dan
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