Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:29:49PM +0200, Aymeric Vincent wrote:
> > fdisk -B on a disk which has no NetBSD disklabel fails because it
> > can't read said disklabel.

Okay, sorry for my initial post, the person who reported this
behaviour was using a wrong device name, so there is actually no
problem and he could successfully install a ``NetBSD'' MBR on his
first hard disk.

> get_params() can't really return -1, because it tries DIOCGDEFLABEL
> first, which should always succeed (it returns an initial label,
> constructed from the disk parameters, without reading the "real" label).

Yup, you're right. Although I finally don't feel the need to do the
commit, you can do it if you want, since it's closer to TRT (beside
rewriting fdisk ;-)

 Aymeric