Re: Is installboot supposed to write to the entire disk?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 08:28:31PM -0400, Jason Mitchell wrote:
> Is there a use case where there's no partition table and NetBSD takes
> up the entire disk? Or should installboot prevent people like me from
> being stupid in this way and only write to a NetBSD slice or wedge?

Yes, there are (rare) cases where using installboot against the raw partition
is usefull and works.

But in the error case it should do no changes to the disk, so the
failure is harmless.

Martin