Subject: Re: Co-existance of NetBSD and Mac OS: Is it possible?
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/04/2000 15:30:24
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Dan Winship wrote:
> > I think you can, though the tools aren't fully there yet - it's still a
> > very manual thing to do.
>
> I've actually been trying to set this up on my new hard drive...
>
> Problem one is that there's no NetBSD Mac partition editor, although
> MkLinux's "pdisk" works. (Although the interface sucks.)
Well, it _is_ open source. Feel free to beat it to a pulp. ;-)
> Problem two is that there's no way to tell the kernel that you changed
> the partition map on disk, so you have to reboot a lot.
Yeah. There definitely needs to be an ioctl for that. That's the one
chunk of code I believe I had to comment out to build pdisk under
NetBSD-nac68k a couple of years ago.
David