Re: SOLVED (Re: How to create a large filesystem?)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:31:12AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:17:50PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:49:21AM -0700, Brook Milligan wrote:
> > > Sorry to be naive, but how did you get the dk0 device?  Are you using 
> > > 
> > >       options DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER
> > > 
> > > in your kernel.  If this is added to the guide or man pages (it should
> > > be!), please include this part of the information in addition to what
> > > you posted.
> > 
> > The GENERIC kernel on x86 has GPT based autodiscovery.
> 
> Yes, and it shouldn't, because one of the methods configured by default
> completely hoses overall disk detection on systems which have both GPT
> and MBR partition tables (typically because they've been switched from
> GPT to MBR, e.g. by repartitioning a Mac originally installed with OS X)
> and makes it impossible to install NetBSD.

What's wrong with actually making sure the GPT is overriden completely
in that case?

Joerg