[ On Wed, October 7, 1998 at 10:57:46 (-0400), der Mouse wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: FW: Question/Help?
>
> Every one of these boot disks has a c partition that, according to the
> label's idea of what a "cylinder" is, is not an exact number of
> cylinders.  Every one of them has another "mis-sized" partition as
> well, though in the last case the "mis-sized" partition is one of the
> "extended" partitions, which the PROM knows nothing about.  But on the
> other two the PROM knows about it, and on the SS2 that partition (d) is
> even the boot/root partition!
> 
> I'm not about to try to tell you you *didn't* have the trouble you
> describe. :-)  But I'm quite sure that it is not universal across
> SPARCs.

Given these observations my guess is the PROM ignores the 'c' partition
in the same way that NetBSD does....

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