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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:50:50 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installer unable to find device node
Message-ID:  <20101020185050.00004ba3@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <4CBF2913.8040303@rakupottery.org.uk>
References:  <4CBF2180.7040209@rakupottery.org.uk> <20101020182816.0000552b@unknown> <4CBF2913.8040303@rakupottery.org.uk>

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On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:38:27 +0100
Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk> wrote:

> It was previously attached to a mac, do I need to zero out the
> partition table?

If it was an x86 Mac then you'll need to zero out the start and end of
the disk since GPT has entries in the first and last sectors. If it was
a PowerPC Mac then I don't know where the Apple Partition Table entries
are stored.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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