On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:26:37AM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> Martin S. Weber wrote:
> >Hmm, but NetBSD/i386 expects 'c' to be 'NetBSD part of the disk' and
> >'d' to be 'the whole disk from beginning to ending'. Don't do that.
> >Try with 'e' and 'f', restoring 'c' and 'd', then writing on ld1e
> >shouldn't effect ld1a, and ld1d should effect ld1a as it's supposed
> >to do.
> 
>   Okay.  If this is the problem, then I accept your solutions as
> a workaround.  I'll try to be more careful about this in the future.
> But, I see two issues:
>   (1) It's been BSD tradition that 'c' is the whole disk, and
> oft 'b' is swap, so people tend not to use them.  Was it a good
> idea to make 'd' special?!

Perhaps not, but it's been this way for well over 10 years, and all of
386BSD's other descendents have the exact same "feature".

Thor