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Re: mounting a hard drive that doesn't have the NetBSD partition on it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Feb 10 21:00:50 1996
To: Eric Ford <eford@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>, Vuong P Nguyen <vpnguyen@MIT.EDU>,
netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Feb 1996 20:50:34 EST."
<199602110150.UAA29158@polys.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 20:56:45 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I'm not sure whether that procedure will work, and it might render the
data on the disk inaccessible if it doesn't work. I suspect you can
get things to work by convincing NetBSD to store its disklabel in
between the MBR and the beginning of the DOS partition, but it's
probably dangerous.
I think what pocky was suggesting was using FIPS to shrink the DOS
partition slightly, and then making a small NetBSD partition at the
end. That gives NetBSD a place to put its disklabel, and thus a way
of getting at the DOS disk.
Another possibility is getting the disklabel command to modify the
in-core disklabel at startup time. We don't really have a good test
case in the SIPB office, so we haven't worked out the details of this
approach.
