Subject: Re: Adding a disk to a shark
To: Steve Woodford <swoodfor@bluews.com>
From: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/09/1998 15:31:03
Steve Woodford wrote:
>
> > - Make sure you have a MBR on the disk with partition type 165. I'm not
> > kidding. (Incidentally, fdisk should probably be enabled for arm32.)
> >
> Hmmm, I just installed a brand new (never been used) drive on a Shark and
> the firmware booted it without me needing to put an MBR on it. I just
> disklabeled it, built a root filesystem and off it went...
>
> Even if the factory put a PC MBR on it, there would have been no NetBSD
> partitions.
I did that the other week too, on a 2.5" disc I installed on a CATS
machine.
Neil
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