> I think from memory that Kelly Campbell has done this and reported that it
> worked fine.

Yes, that is correct.  Here's the patch Kelly sent me:

> I was able to recompile a kernal that allowed me to do native
> disklabels, and they seemed to work just fine. Here's a patch file
> that will fix it... it basically comments out some #if 0 lines
>
> This patches /sys/arch/mac68k/mac68k/disksubr.c

*** disksubr.c	Thu Feb 15 06:35:57 1996
--- disksubr_new.c	Sun Mar 10 15:30:25 1996
***************
*** 511,517 ****
  	u_long openmask;
  	struct cpu_disklabel *osdep;
  {
! #if 0
  	register i;
  	register struct partition *opp, *npp;
  
--- 511,517 ----
  	u_long openmask;
  	struct cpu_disklabel *osdep;
  {
! /* #if 0 */
  	register i;
  	register struct partition *opp, *npp;
  
***************
*** 541,547 ****
  	nlp->d_checksum = 0;
  	nlp->d_checksum = dkcksum(nlp);
  	*olp = *nlp;
! #endif
  	return (0);
  }
  
--- 541,547 ----
  	nlp->d_checksum = 0;
  	nlp->d_checksum = dkcksum(nlp);
  	*olp = *nlp;
! /* #endif */
  	return (0);
  }
  
***************
*** 557,563 ****
  	register struct disklabel *lp;
  	struct cpu_disklabel *osdep;
  {
! #if 0
  	struct buf *bp;
  	struct disklabel *dlp;
  	int labelpart;
--- 557,563 ----
  	register struct disklabel *lp;
  	struct cpu_disklabel *osdep;
  {
! /* #if 0 */
  	struct buf *bp;
  	struct disklabel *dlp;
  	int labelpart;
***************
*** 594,602 ****
  done:
  	brelse(bp);
  	return (error);
! #else
  	return 0;
! #endif
  }
  
  /*
--- 594,602 ----
  done:
  	brelse(bp);
  	return (error);
! /* #else
  	return 0;
! #endif */
  }
  
  /*


ken