Subject: Re: MBR partitioning
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/14/2002 06:34:15
In article <2467.1024003094@itojun.org>
itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

> 	- use DOS-like MBR record and FDISK partitioning, and have 1M DOS
> 	  partition that contains bootloader.  the rest will be OpenBSD-only
> 	  partition (no HFS+).
> 
> 	I went through NetBSD intsllation note, and found nothing like the
> 	latter choice mentioned (I checked distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/macppc
> 	as well).  the latter choice worked very nice when I would like to
> 	use OpenBSD alone on my harddisk.  is it possible to use this scheme
> 	on NetBSD?  if so, why not?

I guess:

- No one has tried it
- We need to have "generic" newfs_msdos(8) or makefs(8) with msdosfs support
  (which is also required by NetBSD/arc, BTW)
- libsa/dosfs.c might have some problem:
  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2002/04/02/0000.html

But all of these should be trivial.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp