Hi.

SGI's have a 16-partition disklabel rather similar to the BSD one.
Since it is necessary to use that rather than a native BSD disklabel
if you want to boot from the disk, we can't just ignore it.

The conventions are as follows.

0: root
1: swap
6: usr
7: volume body		(similar to the NetBSD/i386 'c' partition.)
8: volume header	(simple filesystem for boot loaders etc.)
10: whole disk		(normal RAW_PART equivalent.)

Currently /sgimips has RAW_PART == 10, which many people, including
myself, think will be confusing for people used to other NetBSD
platforms.

Several people have suggested simply swapping partitions 2 and 10.
Another way could be to just ignore partition 2 (replacing it with
a synthetic RAW_PART) or shifting partitions 2+ upwards by one.

Votes so far have been for exchanging 2 and 10. What do other people
think?

[Of course, the real solution is 'wedges', but oh well..]


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Soren