port-i386: Re: maximum partitions per silce in i386 port of NetBSD

Subject: Re: maximum partitions per silce in i386 port of NetBSD
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/23/2005 10:56:06

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:40:35PM +0200, pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz wrote:
> > The limit (for i386) was raised to 16 for NetBSD 1.6.
> 
> And I believe the limit is not per "slice" (MBR partition) but per disk.

True: the netbsd disklabel describes the disk for NetBSD and is saved
at the start of every type 169 MBR partition on i386.

	David

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