On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:34:00AM -0400, lainestump@rcn.com wrote:
> I have an "all DOS" disk that has a primary FAT32 partition, and an
> extended partition with two FAT32's and an NTFS. I want to mount all
> the partitions on this disk when I plug it into a NetBSD machine
> (booting from a different disk). The "fake disklabel" that's generated
> in-kernel by NetBSD shows only the primary partition. So I tried to
> use mbrlabel - it shows all the partitions, but won't write them to
> the disk. Then I looked back into the mailing list and found that it
> *shouldn't* write them to the disk, because that will overwrite the
> existing MBR code on the drive (in the case that it doesn't have a
> NetBSD MBR, I guess, which is the case here).
> 
> So: 1) Why doesn't the fake disklabel that's generated have all the
> stuff that mbrlabel sees?

Because it would bloat the kernel too much ?

> and 2) Since it doesn't, how do I get all
> the partitions mounted without writing a disklabel to the disk (since
> that will apparently screw up the boot record for the existing OS,
> right?)

mbrlabel should be able to write an in-core disklabel (that is, a disklabel
maintained in kernel memory but not written to disk). Once you've run
mbrlabel, what does disklabel say ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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