[Parted-maintainers] Bug#443272: Partitions detected with mac-fdisk, but not with partman.

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Mon Nov 5 22:02:37 GMT 2007


Jim Paris <jim at jtan.com> writes:

> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Please, could you get your boot sector and send it to this bug report?
>> Following commant ought to be enough:
>> 
>>  dd if=/dev/sda of=sda_boot.dd bs=512 count=1
>> 
>> Thanks a lot.
>
> IIRC the Mac partition table format is bigger than just one sector,
> something like
>
>   dd if=/dev/sda of=sda_boot.dd bs=512 count=16
>
> could be more useful.

Thanks :-)

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