[partitioning tale of woe]

> So, what's with this? :) I ended up going to that web site mentioned in
> the FAQ to find the Apple HD SC Setup patch. Partitioned the drive with
> it, and mkfs showed root, swap, and usr. No HFS though, but I didn't care
> :)
> 
> Looking at the detailed partition info in HD SC Setup, my partitions are
> as follows: 
> 
> Number   Type                  Name                  Title
> 0        Apple_partition_map   Apple                 Partition Map
> 1        Apple_Driver43        Macintosh             Mac Driver
> 2        Apple_UNIX_SVR2       Root file system      A/UX Root slice 0
> 3        Apple_UNIX_SVR2       Swap                  A/UX Swap slice 1
> 4        Apple_UNIX_SVR2       Usr file system       A/UX Usr slice 2
> 5        Apple_HFS             MacOS                 Big Blue

Looks like you might be hitting the off-by-one error. It's weird that
it comes and goes. It would have been interesting to see what was going
on (according to HD SC Setup) when you were playing with the other
partitioner.

Take care,

Bill