Subject: Re: "mbrlabel" weirdness - bug or feature?
To: Alec Muffett <alecm@crypticide.com>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/18/2005 14:39:27
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:42:56AM +0000, Alec Muffett wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I am installing NetBSD onto a Toshiba Libretto 100ct with varying
> degrees of success; the operating system is wonderful, well-integrated
> (hey, I can drive my wireless card with "ifconfig"!) but seems to be
> having a slight hissy-fit regarding hard disk partitions.

If you're using the whole disk for NetBSD (as you apparently do), only
configure one MBR partition for NetBSD, and then use disklabel to do
the actual partitioning.

NetBSD doesn't deal with multiple NetBSD MBR-partitions on a disk.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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