Subject: Re: [OT] Making bootable disk for diskless SPARC
To: None <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/29/2000 13:05:46
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Ken Nakata wrote:

> Hm, I must be missing something here.  How do you mount the partition(s)
> on mac68k?  NetBSD/mac68k understands nothing but MacOS partition table
> or MS-DOS mbr partition table (at least on a Zip disk).  Are you saying
> sunlabel and MacOS partition can coexist on a single disk?

Actually it will read a NetBSD disklabel. From the tail of the read
disklabel routine:

                        dlp = (struct disklabel *)(bp->b_un.b_addr + 0);
                        if (dlp->d_magic == DISKMAGIC) {
                                *lp = *dlp;

So if the right magic number is in the right place, away we go. :-)

Take care,

Bill