Subject: Re: semi-newbie questions
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Scott Telford <st@epcc.ed.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/26/1996 10:26:30
> Create the correct label and it _might_ work. The real concern that I
> have with putting disklabels on non-NetBSD drives is simple. Where do
> they go, and what happens if something (like the OS/2 boot selector
> might) lived there?
>From my understanding of the code, if there's no 0xa5-type BIOS
partition on a disk, then the disklabel is expected to be in absolute
sector 1 (ie the one after the BIOS partition table). If you had a
partition-table boot program on that disk that extended into the next
sector (like OS-BS 2.0b8 but not OS-BS 1.35), I guess that would be a
problem 8-)
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