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  • 1.  Virtual Partition and GPT

    Posted Jun 28, 2007 06:44 PM
    Are there any plans to make the virtual partition work with GPT? I would love to be able to automate lab deployments with our large inventory of Mac's running Windows.


  • 2.  RE: Virtual Partition and GPT

    Posted Jun 29, 2007 09:17 AM
    I was able to get the virtual partition to load on a dual boot mac.  The problem I has was an error from ghost when re-imaging windows.  It stated that there was an overlap in the V-partition and the target OS partition or something like that.  I havent tried with gss 2.01, this was with 8.2


  • 3.  RE: Virtual Partition and GPT

    Posted Jun 29, 2007 10:20 AM
    So did you format the drive with MBR? When we start a task, we get a message saying the computer will restart and it never does.


  • 4.  RE: Virtual Partition and GPT

    Posted Jun 29, 2007 11:20 AM
    If I remember correctly I got rid of the EFI partition because ghost/gdisk didnt understand and/or couldnt recreate the partition sizes they originally were on the disk even if I made a forensic image.  I think I also had to use a bootloader like refit to correct the GPT to get it to point to the right location for the windows partition. 
     
    My steps were to basically install the mac tools to let you install a dual boot OS.  ( I don't recall their name right now)  Then I installed the windows OS and made a full image of the drive.  Then I recreated the partitions using GDISK and restore them.  I had to use the Mac OS X CD to make the Mac partition bootable, then used refit to correct the windows partition pointers and then I could remove refit and I had a dual boot machine.  At that point I made a new image and when it was re-applied it always worked from that point on.


  • 5.  RE: Virtual Partition and GPT

    Posted Jul 02, 2007 04:40 PM
    I was really hoping to avoid that scenario. When you move to MBR, I believe it breaks the ability to use bootcamp assistant.


  • 6.  RE: Virtual Partition and GPT

    Posted Jul 02, 2007 04:45 PM
    Honestly, why would you need it? Its really just a pretty wrapper around partition creation commands and setting some parameters in the GPT.