On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:56:26 +0100 Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:49:46AM +0100, Frank Wille wrote: > > Hmm... that means I would have to make a small boot/root partition, > > which uses dkctl(8) to make the rest of the disk available? > > Depends on what your firmware can boot. All new x86 machines can boot > from GPT. I'm thinking about my PowerMacs and Amigas. ;) > > And what about other partition formats, like Apple Partition Maps, > > Amiga RDB, SGI, Sparc...? Is it planned to add support for them? > > You mean as on-disk representations for the wedge autocnfiguration > code? There is an on-disk representation of the wedge? I just had a look into sys/dev/dkwedge and was under the impression that a dk(4) device is constructed on the fly from the information read from GPT (or MBR) partitions. > I'm not sure that makes sense for all of those formats, but > where it does, it should be done. I agree. It doesn't seem so difficult to add new formats. -- Frank Wille
