Subject: Dual OS Install and disklabel
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael Endrizzi <endrizzi@sctc.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/14/1995 10:04:31
Configuration:

   1 gig ide drive - dual drive emulation mode (i.e. 504/504)
   NetBSD and DOS dual OS installation

Problem:

I use linux fdisk to partition my primary drive (logical drive C, 504 meg)
to support DOS and NetBSD. During the install, disklabel ALWAYS ignores/can't 
find the NetBSD partition (0xA5) and says:

      wd0: can't find disk label on wd0
      Overwriting DOS partition [n]:

if you say yes it creates it's own new partition table allocating
the whole drive (all 504 meg) to BSD.  A tangent problem is the
number of sectors reserved is always 50,000 sectors which is wrong.

I looked at the disklabel source code and i can't even see the
same error messages in the code that i see displayed on the screen.
I'm not sure the inst-10.fs distribution is using the same disklabel
program.

FYI, linux installs no problem.

Any ideas?


					dreez