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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
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From: bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed
Message-ID: <C3x9JM.5LH@BitBlocks.com>
Organization: Bit Blocks, Inc.
References: <C3Lyuz.A4y@BitBlocks.com> <C3MwC4.ALy@sugar.neosoft.com> <C3uEzo.1J0@BitBlocks.com> <C3w6HC.9Eo@sugar.neosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 08:42:57 GMT
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peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <C3uEzo.1J0@BitBlocks.com> bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah) writes:
>> I'd rather be able to boot from *any* partition so that I can
>> boot even if one copy is trashed.

>I don't see how that has any bearing whatsoever on anything I said. I'm
>talking about "a place to put the boot blocks, volume label, partition
>table, and so on". Nothing to do with where the kernel is.

What I am saying is that I'd rather have bootblocks + label on
every partition instead of a separate partition for them.