On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 03:45:19AM -0500, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Further up above, I think it's one extended partition with several logical
> drives/partitions, rather than several extended partitions.  Not only Windows,
> but Linux too, can figure which partitions are primary and which are logical,
> and Linux finds the partitions, which NetBSD seems not to.  But when I booted
> the OpenBSD 2.9 or 3.0 installation diskette (there is only one), and ran
> "disklabel wd0" (without the quotes), OpenBSD found the DOS primary partition
> and DOS and Linux logical partitions.  At that time I had both NetBSD and
> OpenBSD-intended primary partitions, but I later combined these two into one
> NetBSD primary partition after being repeatedly informed that OpenBSD could not
> boot from above 8 GB.  It ought to be possible to find DOS, Windows and Linux
> partitions without messing the MBR, and to find DOS, Windows and Linux
> partitions on another disk without writing anything to that disk.  Linux can
> do that, and apparently so can OpenBSD.

See the mbrlabel program. There has been discussions about this in tech-kern,
and if I remember rigth the conclusion was that we don't want to put that
much knowledge in the kernel ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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