SunOS 4.x boot disk layout

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great der Mouse once stated:
> 
> > Googling shows the first entry to be the root partition on such a
> > drive, second entry to be swap, third to be the whole disk entry, and
> > the rest to presumably be aux partitions...
> 
> Normally, yes.  I don't think root _had_ to be the a partition, or swap
> b, but those certainly were the normal way.  c being the whole-disk
> partition was, I think, not optional.

  I always wondered why that was (and I think NetBSD wants it the same
way---I seem to recall setting up the partitions like that on the HP/Apollos
I have (but that are currently in storage at the moment)).  It's such an odd
arrangement (to me).

  -spc (Can't imagine *why* partition C needs to be the whole disk ... )