Re: Smarter OpenBSD/sgi boot blocks

2016-10-05 Thread Visa Hankala
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 08:08:32PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > The sgi boot blocks use the PROM (ARCBios or ARCS) for its I/O routines. > When using a disk-based path, these routines are using the partition > table found in the ``volume header''. > > In order to be able to use 16 partitions per

Smarter OpenBSD/sgi boot blocks

2016-10-04 Thread Miod Vallat
The sgi boot blocks use the PROM (ARCBios or ARCS) for its I/O routines. When using a disk-based path, these routines are using the partition table found in the ``volume header''. In order to be able to use 16 partitions per disk, the OpenBSD port only claims one volume header partition, #0, as