Re: disklabel vs. dos partition (reading an sdcard in NetBSD/sparc)

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 09:00:44AM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Do I need to somehow create a micro-sd card with a Sun or NetBSD
> disklabel for my test? (I don't have a NetBSD box with micro-sd, only
> big Linux/x86-64...) Is there some way I can add a NetBSD disklabel to
> the existing MBR partition scheme?

Not on sparc, but it is also not needed.

You need a sunlabel/disklabel whenever firmware needs to access data on the
disk, but that is ... unlikely for a SD card ,-)

You can use a MBR only solution, but it requires a tiny bit of manual
work: you need to run mbrlabel(8) to pick up the MBR partitions at
runtime.

Martin