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Re: partition format on intel



Mark Eaton writes:
 > 
 > says that the partition format is different for Macs running on Intel  
 > processors.
 > 
 > Is there any more detailed info/documentation available on what  
 > specifically is different?
 > 

I imagine it would depend on what sort of firmware they are using in
their x86 box.   I don't have a transition kit, so I'm just guessing.

If they go with a standard Wintel BIOS, then it would be a standard
X86 Wintel "fdisk" partition table.  If they go with EFI, then it would
be the EFI scheme (called GFI I think).

See http://www.opendarwin.org/en/articles/booting_on_x86/index.html#partitioning
for what Darwin/x86 uses.  

Drew
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