Subject: Re: "wd0e" - is it default?
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/12/2007 16:16:39
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On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:37:33AM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:03:24AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> [...]
> > 5 partitions:
> > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> > a: 12288000 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 27560 # (Cyl. 0 -=
12190*)
> > b: 404736 12288000 swap # (Cyl. 12190*-=
12591)
> > c: 12692673 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 27800 # (Cyl. 0*-=
12591)
>=20
> It's a tad dangerous to make a starts at 0, for several reasons.
>=20
> First, while I think our pbr code does a good job at passing for a mbr,
> it's still risky. Then, such a setup is likely to confuse the kernel
> when looking for a root partition, because it starts outside the NetBSD
> slice.
I've always used partitions starting at 0, but it's a choice.
Nevertheless, the start of your 'a' and 'c' partitions should match. Yours
don't.
Geert
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