From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 27 10:28:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28024 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:28:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28011 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA08079; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd008064; Mon Apr 27 17:23:08 1998 Message-ID: <3544BDB4.446B9B3D@whistle.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:17:40 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of Netbsd (Re: ELF kernels: When?) References: <199804260318.UAA01808@antipodes.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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