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Date:      Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:19:20 +0200
From:      Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD on Mac Mini 4G PPC
Message-ID:  <20110619211920.b627797c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
In-Reply-To: <8A05F98C-530F-423D-84D5-D25804D06EA2@xcllnt.net>
References:  <50055898-7A01-4352-882A-8D7B268BEBCE@gmail.com> <20110618113509.5ee0e50c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4DE41080-250D-4F0A-9CD9-9E9EAF790806@gmail.com> <20110618170808.d1eb48fe.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <8A05F98C-530F-423D-84D5-D25804D06EA2@xcllnt.net>

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On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:50:31 -0700
Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote:

> The APM partitioning scheme sets up the first partition to describe
> itself. The old APM code in FreeBSD didn't filter it out and as such
> gave the first user partition slice number 2. gpart does not do that
> but preserve the previous naming of starting user partitions with s2.

I hadn't noticed that; thanks for explaining.

> It's easily changed, but breaks backward compatibility...

As long as we now, I think we can live with it.
-- 
Torfinn




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