Subject: Re: netbsd/dos on same disk
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG, paranoid@texas.net>
From: Captech) <greywolf@tomcat.VAS.viewlogic.com (James Graham>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/16/1995 12:22:29
#: From owner-port-i386@NetBSD.ORG Wed Aug 16 12:17:22 1995
#: From: Brian Leonard <paranoid@texas.net>
#: Subject: netbsd/dos on same disk
#: To: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
#: Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:40:42 -0500 (CDT)
#: 
#: What's the correct way to label a disk so netbsd can mount dos partitions?
#: Everything I've tried has either munched the partition table, or given me
#: "device not configured" when I mount the dos partition (yes, msdosfs is in
#: the kernel).
#: 
#: 
#: 

I ran into this once, and the trick seems to be to start your DOS partition
on the NetBSD label at cylinder 1 (or is that cyl 0 track 1), and not
cylinder 0 (, track 0).

It's either the second track or the first track of the second cylinder
which does the trick.

					--*greywolf;