[Simh] write errors attempting to install 4.3BSD on vax; simh from git

Anders Magnusson ragge at ludd.ltu.se
Fri May 23 09:43:31 EDT 2014


Phil Budne skrev 2014-05-23 15:36:
> Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:
>> My memory is dim on where the partition info is, but I think in this
>> case it's hard coded in the unix kernel.
> My recall is that 4.3 introduced disk labels, but fell back to the
> hard coded table in the driver if no label was found.
>
No, that was later.  Plain 4.3 uses only compiled-in partition sizes.  
Disklabels came with Tahoe or Reno, but the compiled-in labels remained 
until the end.

-- Ragge



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