Subject: Re: NetBSD Hang after disklabel, xsm crash
To: None <root@garbled.net>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/29/1998 16:37:54
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 06:48:05AM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> #  a: Start at sector 63, end at sector 6281856, type 4.2BSD
> #  c: Start at sector 0, end at sector 6281856, type unused
> #  d: Start at sector 0, end at sector 6281856, type unused
> #  
> 
> This would be the correct way to do things..
> 
> Just a question of curiosity to everyone out there.. Why do you offset 63
> sectors into the disk?  I've never done that on any of my machines.. and it
> works just peachy..

Where does the disklabel get stored if the first real partition starts
at sector 0?  (Sure I'm clueless, that's why I'm asking :-)

  -jm