Re: disklabel compatibility

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Was the fix (for my 16 MAXPARTITIONS botch) down to 12 pulled up into netbsd-6?

On 28 April 2014 14:45, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:58:18AM -0400, Charles Dickman wrote:
>> I have a VS4000/60 that has NetBSD 6.0.1 and I wanted to install a
>> different version on another partition.
>
> How many partitions does disklabel offer you (or: what value does
> /usr/include/vax/disklabel.h define MAXPARTITIONS to)?
>
> I think 6.0.1 has 16 there, which is wrong.
>
> If so, you'd need to update to something newer on that branch and edit
> the disklabel once, after that it should be ok again.
>
> Martin