From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 5 08:08:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA07897 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA07892 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:08:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from Mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.Beta.3) with ESMTP id KAA02525; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:07:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from Venus.mcs.net (karl@Venus.mcs.com [192.160.127.92]) by Mailbox.mcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id KAA05212; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:07:07 -0600 (CST) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Venus.mcs.net (8.8.2/8.8.2) id KAA05340; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:07:06 -0600 (CST) From: Karl Denninger Message-Id: <199611051607.KAA05340@Venus.mcs.net> Subject: Re: Blargh - BSDI disk labels To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:07:06 -0600 (CST) Cc: karl@Mcs.Net, matt@lkg.dec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199611051147.WAA03814@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 5, 96 10:47:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >> 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 Uh, I'm not trying to BOOT the disk, just MOUNT it. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 32 Analog Prefixes, 13 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal