On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> >Do you still have code to re-read the disklabel?
> >
[snip]

Ok, I'll look in the PR.

> >Cool. Let's get this done soon.
> >
> >I'm in the process of getting installboot on the macppc to play nice with
> >an existing Apple Partition Map, so that we can get 1.5 to coexist nicely
> >with other OS's. :-)
> >
> Ah!  I was dinking with some of the same stuff on the macppc port.  Got 
> side-tracked on the whole OF and bootable CD stuff though.  I have some 
> utilites that might be of use to help debug this and they work on both 
> mac68k and macppc ports.  One is a modification to the pdisk utility from 
> MkLinux.  Basically I added a formatted dump option for decoding the 
> Partition Map into something readable.  It runs under MacOS on both 
> platforms.  The other utility I did was a program that does a similar 
> thing under NetBSD.

Cool. :-) Did you see the program Dan wrote a while back for playing with
apple partition maps?

> >Can we get sysinst to just build an old-style filesystem? We still have
> >the code to do it in newfs.
> 
> Yes we can do this.  The newfs command in sysinst is in the MI portion of 
> the code and I tried to stay away from changes there as they might affect 
> all other ports.  One thing I thought about was formatting the root 
> partition in old style for the Booter, and use the new style for all the 
> other partitions.  This wouldn't help the Installer, but if sysinst works 
> as it should there won't be much of a need for the Installer or Mkfs.

This would be a question for the sysinst folks. :-)