James K. Lowden wrote:-

> On Sun, 4 May 2003 17:11:21 +0100, Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > If I write a NetBSD disklabel to a disk with lilo installed, will that
> > render it unbootable?
> 
> [I think I know the answer.  Let's see if someone corrects me.]
> 
> No.  The disklabel is written to the front of the NetBSD partition.  It is
> NetBSD's description of the disk.  lilo lives outside that, in the first
> sector of the disk.  Writing a disklabel won't touch the MBR unless you
> use options e.g. -B that explicitly do so.  

But the disk doesn't have a NetBSD partition.  It has only Linux
partitions that I'm trying to mount.  My understanding is that the disk
needs a disklabel for me to do this under NetBSD.

Neil.