Re: spurious DIAGNOSTIC message "no disk label"

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih%hamartun.priv.no@localhost>]

mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost writes:

> 4.3 did not have on-disk disklabels.  Partition tables were built into
> the drivers; changing partitioning required recompiling the relevant
> driver.  (I'm reasonably sure it worked that way for the disks we
> actually had on our 4.3 machine(s), at least.)

Just checked my copy of the 4.3-Tahoe installation instructions, and
they describe on-disk disklabels, but also note that not all drivers
support them (saying that it won't hurt to run disklabel(8) on these
disks, since the program will then only install the boot blocks, and not
do anything wrong).

-tih
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