Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 09:41:31 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: imp@village.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting other people's disks? Message-ID: <199705031641.JAA04537@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Sun, 4 May 1997 01:22:49 +1000
Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
> a) the c partition probably isn't for the whole disk in NetBSD. In
> systems derived from 386BSD, the d partition was for the whole
> disk.
...only on the i386 port is "d" the entire disk; "c" is the entire
NetBSD portion of the disk ("slice" in FreeBSD terminology).
The other port that uses MBR partitions, NetBSD/powerpc, uses the
"absolute" approach (no "slices" of any sort); if a NetBSD disklabel
is found, its partition information is used, else the information from
the MBR is used. The MBR and the NetBSD disklabel must be consistent
for partitions that both OpenFirmware and NetBSD share (such as the
FAT where the boot program is loaded from).
Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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