Subject: Re: More progress
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: port-arm26
Date: 11/27/2001 12:57:32
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:38:52PM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ian Fry wrote:
> > Okay, I tried this again yesterday, and this is what I've found - mostly
> > from memory, so some of the details may not be accurate:
> >
> >    disklabel -i -I wd0 allows a disklabel to be written to disk, and not
> >    affect the RISC OS partition, but the kernel always reports 'wd0: no
> >    disk label' - it seems that the in-core label isn't getting
> >    initialised.
> >
> >    disklabel -R -r wd0 <label> labels the disk and the in-core label is
> >    set, but trashes any RISC OS partition.
> Hmm.  It looks like disklabel(8) has lots of code that's conditional on
> __arm32__, which is rather poor.  Try rebuilding it with this patch:
> [snip]
 
Okay, I'll see if I can try that out tonight.

Ian.