Re: adding support for logical partitions to wd

nick@nsis.cl.nec.co.jp (Gavin Thomas Nicol) writes:
> I believe that Linux and/or 386BSD support extended partitions. At
> least in the pc9801 version for one of these I've seen the code for
> dealing with them. If you don't find anything else, I'll see if I can
> dig it up.

Thanks. I'll let you know.

In the mean time, I've determined the basic extended/logical partition
structure by dumping sectors on my dos hard disk. Armed with this
information, I was able to make changes to init_part() and iodone() and
get wd to "see" the logical partitions (d:, e:, and f:) on my hard
disk.

When I get more definitive information on extended dos partitions, I'll
make any changes necessary and package the code so it can be called
as library routine.

BTW: the reason I started to look into this in the first place is
because I wanted to give vsta a partition of its own (i'm running the
MKS toolkit, and there are some filename conflicts between the two
environments).

Anyway, I made the following change to boot.lst:

27c27
< ../dos/dos -p disk/wd wd0_dos0 fs/root

---
> ../dos/dos -p disk/wd wd0_dos3 fs/root
(Note that dos and MKS are on c:, and vsta is on f:).
Is this reasonable? It seems to work.
					Mike Larson