On Sep 16, 2005, at 6:13 AM, adam@albedo.art.pl wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Would it be possible to have different partition maps handled in one
> kernel configuration?  I have noticed that at the moment partition  
> maps
> and disk labels are machine-dependent.  I would very much like to  
> see a
> kernel option which enables certain partition map handling (like MBR,
> Apple Partition Map, Rigit Disk Block, etc.).

We're going that way, albeit slowly, with wedges.  We'll get there  
eventually.

But it's not possible to really do it right now[*].

[*] Except for the mbrlabel hack that non-x86 platforms use to read  
MBR labels and fake an in-core version.

-- thorpej