From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 26 20:17:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27159 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:09:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu (SICILY.ODYSSEY.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.185.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA27123 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu) From: rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Speaking of Netbsd (Re: ELF kernels: When?) References: <199804260318.UAA01808@antipodes.cdrom.com> Date: 26 Apr 1998 23:08:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:18:54 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.46/Emacs 19.34 Source-Info: Sender is really rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have some large disks that have freebsd and netbsd MBR partitions. I tried to hide the netbsd from freebsd by making the partition type odd 163 (vs 165). I guess FreeBSD decided that it the 163 partition had a bsd disklabel, so ... It complained when is saw the "d" partition, which spans the whole disk. How about a "hack" that says, that if the partition is not type 165: 1. don't process the partition 2. don't warn 3. allow a special case of d running from 0 to the size of the disk, and not complain 4. ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message