On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

: > - Make sure you have a MBR on the disk with partition type 165.  I'm not
: 
: Are you sure it's 165 (old netbsd) not 169 (netbsd)?

Yes, or otherwise the firmware won't see it.  The OFW doesn't know about
type 169.

: What should the boot block be set to?  Should it contain the i386 code in 
: fdisk.c, or should it be arm code that gets executed?

Doesn't matter.  It won't get executed.

: > - Disklabel it.
: 
: Any special options (primary, secondary boot blocks and the like?

Nope.  There are no bootblocks.  The firmware knows MBR and disklabel
internally.

: Something I forgot to mention in my first message was that the Aug28 build 
: of the firmware does not contain an interrupts property for the ide device 
: (I had to fake this up in the ofw probing code using the constant defined 
: in the headers -- I'll submit a patch once I get all this sorted out).  
: Could this be related to why I can't access the disk ?  Can I patch my 
: firmware to supply this info?

Hm.  The attach code is supposed to handle that with COMPAT_OLD_OFW, but
perhaps it didn't....

: Is there any way I can get the open firmware to print what it can see of 
: the partition table?  I really don't know any Forth at all, so wouldn't 
: know where to start.

Unfortunately, `nfc'.

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