[OpenBIOS] About HFS+ support
Programmingkid
programmingkidx at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 21:13:53 CEST 2012
On Oct 9, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 09/10/12 19:04, Programmingkid wrote:
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>> Ok. I will CC our info later to the list. We can find out the name of each partition, so can't we just select the partition that is named APPLE_HFS, or APPLE_HFSX?
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> Given that Apple have lots of partition types which can contain a variety of filesystems (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map), I suspect it will be a combination of partition flags. Otherwise how would we know which partition to boot from if there were more than one HFS partition present?
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> ATB,
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> Mark.
Good point. I didn't think of that. Do you think the "boot" word might fail because of this problem? Or would specifying a partition allow it to work?
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