Subject: Re: "wd0e" - is it default?
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/12/2007 16:16:39
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On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:37:33AM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:03:24AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> [...]
> > 5 partitions:
> > #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> >  a:  12288000         0     4.2BSD   2048 16384 27560  # (Cyl.      0 -=
  12190*)
> >  b:    404736  12288000       swap                     # (Cyl.  12190*-=
  12591)
> >  c:  12692673        63     4.2BSD   2048 16384 27800  # (Cyl.      0*-=
  12591)
>=20
> It's a tad dangerous to make a starts at 0, for several reasons.
>=20
> First, while I think our pbr code does a good job at passing for a mbr,
> it's still risky.  Then, such a setup is likely to confuse the kernel
> when looking for a root partition, because it starts outside the NetBSD
> slice.

I've always used partitions starting at 0, but it's a choice.

Nevertheless, the start of your 'a' and 'c' partitions should match.  Yours
don't.

	Geert

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