Subject: Re: MBR partitioning
To: itojun@iijlab.net, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/17/2002 08:51:53
At 6:07 PM +0900 6/17/02, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
>  >>	i understand the goal, but i found openbsd approach extreme simple
>>>	and useful when i would like my Mac be a BSD-only system (when I do
>>>	not need any Mac OS 9/X, nor AIX).
>>BTW, it's also worth to add HFS and Apple partition map support
>>in our kernel and build-tools so that we don't need MacOS to boot NetBSD,
>>and we can share disks with other OS.
>
>	openbsd has sbin/pdisk, which should be able to do some of the
>	HFS-partition maintenance tasks.  does it satisfy (part of) the goal?
>	http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/pdisk/

Yeah, there are people who know about it, even someone on this list 
who has updated it.  The problem is defining an APM in combination 
with boot blocks that are actually functional on all OF versions.
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