Subject: Re: Bootability eludes me once again
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/01/2002 10:49:05
> The code in the first sector of the partition (pbr) re-reads sector
> zero to find the netbsd partition (it isn't passed it's own sector
> number),

...which breaks badly in the face of two NetBSD partitions on the same
disk (for fdisk, as opposed to disklabel, values of "partition")....

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