Subject: Re: newfs trashes MBR/disklabel?
To: Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-amd64
Date: 08/28/2005 09:05:43
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:40:34PM -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:02 pm, Dieter wrote:
> > This is my first system that uses a "MBR" type partition table
> > plus BSD disklabel rather than just a BSD disklabel. Most likely
> > I have made some MBR newbie error.
> ~~~~~~
> > What did I do wrong?
>
> I believe the NetBSD slices are supposed to reside within the bounds of slice
> 'c'.
Not true.... the NetBSD disklabel contains absolute sector numbers
precisely so that it can describe other parts of the disk.
David
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