At 12:08 Uhr -0500 15.6.2002, Bob Nestor wrote:
>> While I'm doing all that, let me ask you this: what happens if I have
>> two or three ffs partitions, and two or there HFS partitions. Won't
>> the second and third of each be "d" and "e" respectively, displaying
>> two of the same in the menu? Then, of course, they won't match the
>> kernel interpretation -- the kernel doesn't make that mistake -- and
>> sysinstall will then newfs and try to mount the wrong partition. It
>> certainly does that presently -- there's an open PR -- and I'm failing
>> to see where you've addressed that problem in your patch.
>
>The "d" partition isn't used by NetBSD for ffs parts since it is the
>RAW_PART on other ports.  The mac68k port uses "c" as the RAW_PART. I
>think this was a change that was made after 1.3 when the disksubr code
>was cleaned up and rewritten.  I seem to recall that "d" was usable in
>the mac68k port prior to that change.

You've got that backwards:

[hauke@q700] ~ > uname -a
NetBSD q700 1.5ZB NetBSD 1.5ZB (FG54) #0: Sun Mar 10 04:28:15 CET 2002
hauke@q700.causeuse.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/FG54 mac68k
[hauke@q700] ~ > df
Filesystem       1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a            48653    41294      4926    89%    /
/dev/sd0d           589898   329177    231226    58%    /var
/dev/sd0g           512847   421545     65659    86%    /usr
/dev/sd0e           589898   516969     43434    92%    /home
/dev/sd0f           974614   884680     41203    95%    /local
/dev/sd0h           589898    56219    504184    10%    /usr/pkg
kernfs                   1        1         0   100%    /kern
procfs                   4        4         0   100%    /proc
pid146@q700:/net         0        0         0   100%    /net
pid146@q700:/cd          0        0         0   100%    /cd
[hauke@q700] ~ >

The change that Allen made around 1.3 (IIRC) specifically enabled partition
'd'.

	hauke


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