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Re: mounting 2nd DOS drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jul 27 14:46:38 1996
To: Eric N Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:18:32 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 14:42:32 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
In NetBSD 1.1, it is difficult to mount a DOS partition on a disk
which doesn't contain a NetBSD partition. The reason for this is that
NetBSD keeps its list of partitions for a given disk in the NetBSD
partition, and if it can't find a NetBSD partition, it just fakes up a
list of partitions which doesn't include the DOS partition.
NetBSD 1.2 fixes this problem (the faked-up list in 1.2 includes all
the partitions in the master boot record, and will recognize DOS
partition IDs), but for the moment, the dospart script only scans the
disk containing the root partition.
