Subject: Re: multiple netbsd slices on the same HD
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/18/2000 06:25:05
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:39:53AM +0200, Paolo Losi wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > What do you mean by you can't? What is going to happen exactly?
> > if the problem is only that of the installation program I could follow 
> > Fredrick suggestion...
> 
> NetBSD (and the boot loader) only looks at the first partition of type
> MBR_PTYPE_NETBSD. It will ignore the others.

What about the boot _selector_ (fdisk -B)? Why would it care what's in
the not-chosen MBR slices?


Frederick