Or rather, it
is one of the partitions on that disk. ra0a is just
one of the (probably) eight possible partitions on ra0. On some
systems, the partition table was compiled in; on others, it was read
off the disk. I don't know which Ultrix 4.3 was.
Is there any way to display
the partition table of each disk from
single user mode?
If it's a read-off-disk kernel, probably so, but if it's a compiled-in
kernel, probably not.
However, as I said, I don't know which of those Ultrix 4.3 is, and if
it's the latter, I don't know the command (unless by chance it's the
"disklabel" I'm used to in modern open-source BSD).
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