Subject: Re: Panic is gone/divide and conquer
To: None <lsp93@xs4all.nl>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/31/1999 13:27:56
T@W wrote:
> I have exactly 7 partitions (4+drivers/partitionmap) but the installer says
> that i have sd1a up till sd1q and in Mkfs it shows some partitions twice or
> shows partitions wich are physically not there:
> 
> >>sd1k: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8388504 size 502256
> >> sd1l: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8388504 size 502256
> >> sd1m: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8388504 size 502256
> &
> >>sd0d: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Unused partition' at 528869 size 10
> >> sd0e: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Unused partition' at 528869 size 10
> &
> >> sd1p: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8704766 size 185994
> >> sd1q: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8704766 size
> 
> I think the problem arises with some driver configurations
> 
> My excuse for previous confusion......
> 
> BUT IT WORKS, YEAH!!!

i think that the weirdness you're seeing above is due to having junk left
over in your partition map from previous setups.  this is one of the
reasons why i'd generally recommend reformatting a disk entirely before
using it with netbsd.  but if you have a working setup, _don't mess with
it!_  :-)

later.

colin