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Subject: Re: [9fans] partition question
From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Wed,  2 Feb 2005 10:44:35 +0000
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Some sd partitions are set up as a side effect of the bootstrap
process.  Look at mbrpart() in /sys/src/boot/pc/part.c, which
is called for each sd while probing for possible boot devices.

The comment says
/*
 * Fetch the first dos and all plan9 partitions out of the MBR partition table.
 * We return -1 if we did not find a plan9 partition.
 */
That's why termrc does further probing, to find any extra
partitions besides the above.  To do the same for a CPU server,
you would have to add something to the local cpurc.

-- Richard