Subject: Re: Possibly moving the start of the disklabel in NetBSD-only disks
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/11/2000 16:47:36
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:
> Yes, this is the field I'm thinking about. Recent dumps of Block0 on
> Apple created CDROMs and disks formatted for use with MacOS show that
> there are now mulptile entries in there for all four of the values I
> listed. I went digging to find out what they were and dug up the info.
> Are you sure we won't ever use the Start Manager? How about for booting
> systems without OF?
Hmmm.... For non-OF systems we might use the Start manager. But we could
just say that we don't support booting NetBSD-only disks (ones using a
struct disklabel) on those platforms. We certainly can use Apple
partitioned disks there, and thus won't run into the overlap. :-)
Take care,
Bill