Subject: Re: putting a NetBSD disklabel on an IDE partition other than the
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/06/1998 19:34:34
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Jonathan Stone wrote:

: That may have to be an option (just in case developers are exploiting
: the loophole to run 1.3.x and -current on different MBR partitions of
: the same disk -- anyone doing this?) but i see no reason not to turn
: on the option by default for INSTALL and GENERIC kernels (since the
: most-probable cause is co-existing with FreeBSD, and if developers
: want shady tricks, well, they can UTSL).

In addition, the following in the DOSPTYP_386BSD should be either made more
explanatory or nuked:

printf("WARNING: old BSD partition ID!\n");

It's already known to be confusing to users.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)