Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 19:21:39 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, mike@smith.net.au, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I dunno... is this a bug? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171921260.2527-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199905172128.OAA27052@usr08.primenet.com>
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Ah! Perhaps that's why it changed... On Mon, 17 May 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I'm not sure why this worked before. The problem is that alpha puts the > > > label at offset 64 (dictated by OSF1 and NetBSD) and i386 puts it at > > > offset 512. We could update readdisklabel to look in both places I > > > suppose. > > > > I don't know why it did but it sure did! > > > > Why isn't readdisklabel a architecture independent function? One of the > > *huge* wins for Linux is it's ability to cope with multiple disk label > > formats. > > Because Julian's SLICE code is no longer there, and it was the function > of that code to perform disk identifications, like the one you suggest? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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