On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:25:35PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On i386 (etc) a disk can have multiple type 169 mbr partitions (so that
> the mbr_bootsel code can select between different filesystems), but the
> netbsd disklabel always describes the whole disk.

> For safe-keeping it
> is written to the start of ALL the type 169 mbr partitions, although
> the kernel will normally read it from the booted partition.

Could you possibly put that sentence in active voice, and clarify the
antecedent of "it"? :-) I believe you mean that the kernel writes the
BSD disklabel to each type-169 MBR partition?

Dave

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