Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:47:50 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: karl@mcs.net, matt@lkg.dec.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Blargh - BSDI disk labels Message-ID: <199611051147.WAA03814@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> FreeBSD doesn't understand BSDI disk labels. Like at all. >> >> There's no fix for this, is there? > >Here's a patch I made for 2.1.0 so I could mount my BSD/OS labels. >It's ugly but it works... It depends on the BSD/OS label having a 'c' partition that starts at absolute offset 0 even when the BSD/OS slice doesn't start at offset 0, right? This is like the old FreeBSD 'd' partition. How are bad144 tables handled in BSD/OS? Karl's problem was that the BSD/OS bootstrap on the MBR is incompatible with a standard MBR. Bruce
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