On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 7:36 PM -0700 7/7/98, SUNAGAWA Keiki wrote:
> >"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>  wrote:
> >
> >Henry> Perhaps I didn't make it clear that the above is my
> >Henry> current, working fstab.  The old,
> >Henry> 50%-failing-on-reboot fstab looked like this:
> >
> >Henry> /dev/sd0a       /               ffs     rw 1 1
> >Henry> /dev/sd1b       none            swap    sw 0 0
> >Henry> /dev/sd2d       /users          ffs     rw 1 2
> >Henry> /dev/sd3a       /mirror         ffs     rw 1 2
> >Henry> /dev/sd3b       /usr/vice       ffs     rw 0 2
> >               ^
> >
> >Does'nt this (sd3"b") make the problem?  I believe that the
> >partition other than root is named sd?[d-h].  What partition
> >type does sd3b have?  I might miss someting though...
> 
> I don't understand how the MacBSD partition-mapping code works.  The idea
> is that the first, bootable A/UX partition get's sd?a, the swap partion
> gets sd?b, and everything else gets sd?[d-h] as you said.  In fact sd1 has
> only one partition:  sd1b.  Disklabel does not even show a sd1c, but it
> seems to work just fine as intended.  Disklabel on sd3 shows all partition
> types as unknown and the second A/UX data partition shows as sd3b even
> though there should be no swap partition on this disk.  There's something
> wierd about the HFS partition on sd2, but I can't remember what at the
> moment.
> 
> I'd love to go in and redo the partition-mapping code so it really
> understands the Apple flags used by the A/UX version of HD SC Setup, but I
> don't have time and what I would do would probably break with what all the
> third-party formatters do anyway.  *sigh*

But it DOES understand these flags.

What does disklabel say for sd3?

The only time non-swap partitions get stuffed in 'b' is if you have no
UNIX partitions on the drive. A properly-flagged root or usr partition
should not get stuffed into 'b'.

Take care,

Bill