Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:44:56 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetBSD and OpenBSD label geoms. Message-ID: <9876.1108118696@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:23:23 PST." <20050211102323.GA4287@alzatex.com>
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In message <20050211102323.GA4287@alzatex.com>, "Loren M. Lang" writes: >I have a quad-boot system with Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and >NetBSD. I was disappointed to see that none of the BSD's can see each >other. (Linux could read at least 2 if not all of them.) So, I'd like >to rectify that by making FreeBSD be able to read the NetBSD disklabel >and then OpenBSD's disklabel. I'm thinking it will be easiest to copy >the FreeBSD disklabel geom and modify it to work with NetBSD, and then >merge it back into the FreeBSD disklabel code if it's still very >similar. I belive all you need to do is to increase MAXPARTITIONS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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