On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:07:51AM +0000, David Holland wrote: > > Are *our* ancient disklabels partition-relative? It's so long ago that > I'm not sure... but the code in currently in disklabel(8) doesn't appear > to know anything at all about partition-relative labels.
They are not. This was a major point of divergence between FreeBSD and NetBSD. > Given the rest of the discussion here, the fact that fixing > disklabel(8) properly isn't completely trivial, and tls's recent > experience, I think the feature should just be turned off in > disklabel... but, just in case, not removed entirely until we branch > netbsd-6. For the record, I am pretty sure it was sysinst, not disklabel, which hosed my disk. Sysinst compiles equivalent code in directly, no? As it stands now, installing NetBSD on a disk that has previously had FreeBSD installed in the physically-first MBR partition will destroy that FreeBSD installation. Not good. Thor
