Re: partition format on intel

• Subject: Re: partition format on intel
• From: chuck remes <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:25:26 -0500
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On Jun 8, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

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.

I'm cautiously hoping for EFI as the firmware.

cr

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