Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:

> Well, not all kernels are 4MB large :)

Then maybe mount_msdos should automatically try to run mbrlabel before
mounting (or when someone asks to mount a partition that doesn't show
up in the disklabel)?

I wrote:
> > No joy, see below - mbrlabel says that it has updated the in-core
> > disklabel with the other partitions, but disklabel still just shows
> > the one partition, and mount can't find the others either:
> 
> Maybe it's because the label is lost when all devices are closed.
> Could you run a 'sleep 3600 < /dev/rwd0d' in background before running
> mbrlabel ?

Nope. Didn't help. I guess I'll update, rebuild, and try it again (I'm
running stuff that's a little over a month old right now). I'll report
back after that.