On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

: > : - there are no seperate level0 and level1 blocks.
: >
: > Yes, there are, from the perspective of Luke's description.  "level0" refers
: > to the RDB entries; there's no actual executable code there.  Similarly, the
: > Sun disklabel is the "level0" bootblock for a Sun machine.
:
: ok, if you define it that way, yes. Still leaves us with the same problem:
: unless you want to create a disk images (as opposed to a filesystem image),
: you can't cross-installboot. Or you have to leave out level0.

Well, provided you have a RDB parser, you can at set the bootable flag,
reserved blocks, and write out the data; you just can't repartition.  The
RDB parser is what we're missing, and Luke has now volunteered to write it.
<cynical grin>

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