Subject: Re: HEADS UP: i386 supports 16 partitions now
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/04/2001 17:16:02
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> foreach SUN in sun3 sparc sparc64; do
> 	echo NetBSD/${SUN}
> done
>
> Actually, the problem here is bootability, as the machine PROMs need the
> sun disklabel (with 8 partition limit) to boot, and the NetBSD label is
> stuffed at unused space within it. If another 8 partitions do fit, only
> the first 8 would be bootable. But I guess thats ok.

	I would assume so, though it would need to be documented :)

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