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Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini)
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> The thing is, I actually have more partitions than that.  MacOS
> sees them all, but FreeBSD only lists the first 16?  It happens
> that most of the later partitions are meant for other OS's anyway,
> so this isn't much of a problem for me.  Just wanted to mention it.

  This is an artificial limitation in geom/geom_apple.c:

 >  #define NAPMPART  16    /* Max partitions */

  I'll bump this up to 48 or so.

later,

Peter.