Date: 26 Apr 1998 23:08:09 -0400 From: rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Speaking of Netbsd (Re: ELF kernels: When?) Message-ID: <yzszph8c67a.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:18:54 -0700 References: <199804260318.UAA01808@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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I have some large disks that have freebsd and netbsd MBR partitions. I tried to hide the netbsd from freebsd by making the partition type odd 163 (vs 165). I guess FreeBSD decided that it the 163 partition had a bsd disklabel, so ... It complained when is saw the "d" partition, which spans the whole disk. How about a "hack" that says, that if the partition is not type 165: 1. don't process the partition 2. don't warn 3. allow a special case of d running from 0 to the size of the disk, and not complain 4. ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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