Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 11:46:06 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting other people's disks? Message-ID: <E0wNiso-0000L4-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 May 1997 09:41:31 PDT." <199705031641.JAA04537@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> References: <199705031641.JAA04537@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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In message <199705031641.JAA04537@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Jason Thorpe writes: : The other port that uses MBR partitions, NetBSD/powerpc, uses the : "absolute" approach (no "slices" of any sort); if a NetBSD disklabel : is found, its partition information is used, else the information from : the MBR is used. The MBR and the NetBSD disklabel must be consistent : for partitions that both OpenFirmware and NetBSD share (such as the : FAT where the boot program is loaded from). OpenBSD/arc seems to do exactly the same thing. 'c' is the whole disk, and there must be an MBR if you wanna use that disk to load the OS off of. Warner
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