Re: [PATCH] Support Apple partition map with sector size different from 512 bytes.

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
Serbinenko<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:40:32PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko 
>> wrote:
>>> --- a/partmap/apple.c
>>> +++ b/partmap/apple.c
>>> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct grub_apple_header
>>>    /* The magic number to identify the partition map, it should have
>>>       the value `0x4552'.  */
>>>    grub_uint16_t magic;
>>> +  grub_uint16_t blocksize;
>>>  };
>>
>> Did you confirm that the presence of this member is not version-dependant?
>>
> I read about it in a pretty old document
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Devices/Devices-121.html.

This document is from 3 JUL 1996. When I tried create anything older
in emulator I invariantly got an unpartioned image. This may however
be an emulator artifact. Additionally we don't support Old World ROM
and New World ROM was introduced around 1998
> I will do further research as time permits
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>> Robert Millan
>>
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> Regards
> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko

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