From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:21:52 +0100 (CET)

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> For sparc you could have something like
> 
> 			startlba	endlba	type
> 	sda1		0		2	1 Boot
> 	sda2		2		58	3 Whole disk
> 	sda3		58		90000	83 Linux
> 
> and slap the bootloader into "MBR", just like on x86.
> Or I am missing something..

You cannot specify partitions on LBA boundaries on sparc, the Sun disk
label specifies the partition start points in cylinders.
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