At 21:26 Uhr -0800 7.3.2002, Matt Thomas wrote:
>But the point is that there only a few places disklabels show up and
>it shouldn't be hard to modify both the user and kernel disklabel code
>to search the disk for a disklabel.  This would make the ability to
>cross built full snapshots much easier.

Maybe I did not understand correctly... But does not the userland disklabel
code already scan a *range* for a BSD disklabel? At least that's where I
got the idea for implementing mac68k's

/*
 * Scan the disk buffer in four byte steps for a native BSD disklabel
 * (different ports have variable-sized bootcode before the label)
 */
static char *
read_bsd_label(dlbuf, lp, match)
{
	...
}

The application at the time was that I wanted to use a NetBSD/sparc disk.

mac68k per default uses the Apple partitioning scheme, btw., both because
we boot from MacOS and because it does not suffer from mbr brain damage.

	hauke


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