Formats and displays the contents of the specified sector as a
GUID Partition Table (GPT) sector.
This GPT is assumed located within the target FAT volume
structure as mounted by this utility, and accordingly may or
may not be the same as the GPT structure found at the front of
the physical volume.
Format
SHOW GPT volume
1 – Parameter
volume
The target FAT volume for the command.
2 – Qualifiers
2.1 /LOGICAL_IO
Specifies that the target GPT is to be accessed using Logical I/O
operations.
If neither /LOGICAL_IO nor /VIRTUAL_IO is specified, GPT access
using Virtual I/O will be attempted first and followed by an
attempt to use Logical I/O if [000000]GPT.SYS is not found.
If the file [000000]GPT.SYS is correctly placed on the disk, the
output of /LOGICAL_IO and /VIRTUAL_IO will be the same.
2.2 /VIRTUAL_IO
Specifies that the target GPT is to be accessed using Virtual I/O
operations.
If neither /LOGICAL_IO nor /VIRTUAL_IO is specified, GPT access
using Virtual I/O will be attempted first and followed by an
attempt to use Logical I/O if [000000]GPT.SYS is not found.
If the file [000000]GPT.SYS is correctly placed on the disk, the
output of /LOGICAL_IO and /VIRTUAL_IO will be the same.
3 – Description
The SHOW GPT command is a diagnostic, and used to review the
contents of the disk GUID Partition Table for the specified
target partition or device.
NOTE
This command is not immediately useful to users. This
command is solely intended as a low-level disk diagnostic
and debugging tool.
EFI$CP> show gpt foo:
Master Boot Record (MBR) not present or not valid; disk is not partitioned
EFI$CP>