hmm, on Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 03:17:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that > ffs does not use the first 8K of a partition. > > You used to have MSDOS on there.
yes, that is the correct answer. it's a pitty the kernel is ignoring the partition type id. it's also a pitty that ffs apparently leaves the first 8k untouched when creating a partition, begging for foot shooting like this so other operating systems can go ahead and mount the ffs partition as msdos and fall over as well. and it's a pitty i am such an idiot i dit not know about this apparently well documented, absolutely common FAQ item and had the audacity to bring it on this fine mailing list. -f -- user: a technical term used by computer pros. see idiot.
