Re: disklabel endianness problems

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:52:01PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
> When connecting this same disk to a macppc machine, I can see the
> fdisk partition but not the disklabel.  The kernel complains about "no
> NetBSD disk label" and "disklabel sd0" shows nothing else than the 'c'
> partition.
> 
> Is this supposed to work?

Not automatically, as others have explained already.

But: if you run dkscan_bsdlabel(8) on the disk it might detect
everything you need and create wedges (volatile, runtime only, it won't
modify your disk) for all partitions.

Martin