> I think if you grep through all the system source files,
> you will find that a considerable number of them know
> about disklabels.  Many of them are likely to have "8"
> hard-coded, instead of using the value from a header file.

I don't think so, at least not machine-independent files.  A bunch of
ports are already using disklabels with > 8 partitions.

However, drivers used only by the i386 certainly could show the
problem.


cgd