Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:47:43 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <XFMail.001030104743.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001030055905.C41250@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 30-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:24:17PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: >> I think that the days of the 'dangerously dedicated partition' are >> numbered. > > Not quite. We don't do slices on the Alpha -- in fact our slice code > royally screws the Alpha users as it isn't nicely layered and thus hard > to avoid. But dangerously dedicated mode isn't used on the alpha. All of this stuff is purely x86-specific. The alpha just uses a disklabel instead of an MBR. Dangerously dedicated stuffs a disklabel into an MBR along with other ugliness. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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