Subject: Re: "wd0e" - is it default?
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/12/2007 01:37:33
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On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:03:24AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
[...]
> 5 partitions:
> #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>  a:  12288000         0     4.2BSD   2048 16384 27560  # (Cyl.      0 -  =
12190*)
>  b:    404736  12288000       swap                     # (Cyl.  12190*-  =
12591)
>  c:  12692673        63     4.2BSD   2048 16384 27800  # (Cyl.      0*-  =
12591)

It's a tad dangerous to make a starts at 0, for several reasons.

First, while I think our pbr code does a good job at passing for a mbr,
it's still risky.  Then, such a setup is likely to confuse the kernel
when looking for a root partition, because it starts outside the NetBSD
slice.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
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