Re: playing with bootxx_ext2fs

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 03:04:23PM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> > A BSD disklabel will be on sector 1 if you create a filesystem that
> > starts at 0.
> > 
> > I am not sure if you are talking about sector numbers of the disk, or of
> > a partition.
> 
> I am talking about the netbsd/a9 DOS partition, and I am doing
> `mkfs.ext2 -O^dir_index` all over it.

This is not how NetBSD normally does things. You could get away with
it by mounting wd0c as / later, but everything else (starting with
boot blocks) will be seriously confused and probably unable to find your
root partition.

Why are you doing things in such a strange way?

Martin