> 	We were having odd problems like this. It turns out that 
> the sequencing of partitions is important, in that the logical 
> partitions need to physically occur in sequence.

Ah, so that's why I never could get my system to work with the swap
at the beginning of the disk!

cjs

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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 May 96 15:09:08 EDT
> From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
> To: dlinford@myra.nebulus.net
> Cc: parise@gelato.gsfc.nasa.gov, port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: your install problem
> 
> > From: dlinford@myra.nebulus.net (D.Linford)
> > Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 11:04:08 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > > With the SCSI drive:
> > > 
> > > Same as above but root fs mounts OK
> > > run install OK
> > > when I am asked if I want the root fs on sd0a a say yes.
> > > the system responds with "skipped" and then continues.
> > > later when it tries to write to sd0a it says it can't due to
> > > "INCORRECT SUPERBLOCK" and I am bounced out to the miniroot prompt.
> > 
> 
> Really?  I was not aware of that.
> 
> > 	It is not documented. I guess it is one of those things 
> > that most folks always do a certain way, and easily make assumptions 
> > about. Our problmes were very much like yours, weird things with newfs 
> > and mounting etc.. I was wanting to make it possible to leave part of 
> > the drive available for another system, so we had need to be weird.
> 
> Yes, I don't think I've ever tried out-of-order partitions...
> 
> > 	Could someone tell me where to find out more about the 
> > physical part of the partition table? I need to have the first two 
> > sectors available for the other system to lay down its 
> > partition table, if I'm to do this...
> 
> The Sun label is always in logical sector zero on the disk.
> It's format is described by: arch/sun3/include/sun_disklabel.h
> 
> Gordon
>