Just learned the specs for both MBR and GPT flavours of partition table, and rolled my own in a hex editor to solve a problem that `fdisk` and `parted` weren't able to handle. It's hard to express how pumped I was when this box booted, but I think Andy Weir did a pretty good job in "The Martian":

> **LOG ENTRY: SOL 211**
> I am smiling a great smile. The smile of a man who ****ed with his car and *didn't break it*. This is considerably more rare than you might think.