On Oct 4, 2018, at 3:59 PM, Rocky Hotas <rockyho...@post.com> wrote:
>> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:41 AM
>> From: "Jason Mitchell" <jmitc...@bigjar.com>
>> To: "Michael van Elst" <mlel...@serpens.de>
>> Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org
>> Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD
>
> [...]
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>> I don’t think this is possible. At least I remember reading here that
>> FreeBSD’s disklabel is in a different place then the NetBSD’s disklabel
>> and that NetBSD would unintentionally overwrite FreeBSD’s disklabel. (This
>> seems to imply that the FreeBSD disklabel is not in the FreeBSD MBR
>> partition, but I’m not sure about that).
>
> Ok, this is absolutely possible and thank for remembering this probable
> issue. I put this however only as an example: the real question was not
> about compatibility, but about the... cohabitation of two bootable systems
> ...
This posting (though old) says that FreeBSD disklabels are different from
NetBSD disklabels. Also back in 2011 NetBSD would overwrite a FreeBSD disklabel
on a FreeBSD MBR partition of type 165. FYI, NetBSD has been using a MBR
partition type of 169 for a long, long time.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2011/02/04/msg009919.html
My objection was to NetBSD and FreeBSD sharing a disklabel, not to two
instances of NetBSD sharing a disklabel.
Thanks,
Jason M.
