[Cialug] Partition table gone

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Feb 21, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:

> That 512 bytes did it. The machine boots now. Linux fdisk now reports
> partitions, but they are wrong (i assume they are the partitions from
> the machine you pulled those 512 bytes from). I know rEFIt has an
> option to sync the various partition maps that exist on an Intel Mac;
> probably that will fix the inconsistency. But before messing with it,
> i'm going to make a backup.


That's interesting. It needs some bit of the MBR to be there, but  
doesn't really care what's on it. It must look for a traditional  
partition table before checking to see if the disk has a GPT, or  
something. Weird.


> Imaging the disk took 5 hours, 49 minutes. I'm not sure why it was  
> quite
> so long. I realize that it takes time to read a 320 GB notebook drive,
> but 6 hours seems a bit too slow. Copying over 100 Mbit ethernet
> shouldn't have imposed any real limitation.


320 GB / 100 Mbps = 7.28 hours


	Zach

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