At 01:02 PM 1/3/2001 +1100, matthew green wrote:
>
>    >     + miniroot installation support.
>    >         Does anyone use miniroot's for installing anymore?  One 
> (untested)
>    >         idea is to deliberately botch the disklabel checksum so that 
> disk
>    >         drivers don't see a valid label and partition table.
>    >
>    > i don't get what the issue here is?
>
>    At the moment, the miniroot has a 32MB filesystem, complete with a valid
>    disklabel for a 32MB disk.  This overrides the real disk size.  Look for
>    "install diskimag" in sys/arch/pmax/dev/rz.c.
>
>
>wow, that's evil.  if you need to keep this code, it should move into the
>pmax readdisklabel() function proper.

it really should be moved into a dev/dec/ultrix_disklabel.c so that the vax
code can use it too.
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