On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> NetBSD-current/i386 has now an own ID for its partition
> in the MBR partition table.
> The new ID is 169 decimal, A9 hex.
> 
> READ THIS IF YOU WANT YOUR NEXT KERNEL TO
> ACCESS THE DISK!

Hello Matthias,

How will this affect users who upgrade to the next release of NetBSD 
when it is available? 

I have 1.3/i386 installed, and when I upgrade my machine, I will simply 
extract the files from the 1.4 (?) tar files. Does this mean that when I 
boot a 1.4 kernel my system will be dead? I hope the COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART 
option will be a default option in the next release if this is the case.

Another thing I am wondering about, is why was this change necessary? 
Does NetBSD want to have its own ID number, or is there new functionality 
associated with this change?

Thanks,


Brian

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