Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:17:40 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of Netbsd (Re: ELF kernels: When?) Message-ID: <3544BDB4.446B9B3D@whistle.com> References: <199804260318.UAA01808@antipodes.cdrom.com> <yzszph8c67a.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
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Hi Robert! As far as I know we don't look at 163. I use that method to hide extra BSD partitions.. There must be something odd going on here. the two partitions are not overlapping are they? rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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