Subject: Re: partition types...
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/06/1999 11:33:30
In message <E1097IB-00030t-00@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk>, "Patrick Welche" writes:
>Peter Seebach wrote:
>...
>> 1. On systems with screwy geometry, I could make a small NetBSD partition
>> in the first 1024 cylinders of a disk's geometry, for /, so I could boot - a
>nd
>> then mount partitions from elsewhere on the disk.
>...
>My understanding was that the partition table only had to have /. As long as
>the partitions elsewhere on the disk are defined correctly in the disklabel,
>you should be able to mount them - they don't have to appear in the partition
>table.
Oh, that's evil.
But sorta clever.
-s