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Date:      Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:41:08 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disklabel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904060939300.74823-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990406024505.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Simon Shapiro wrote:

> > The only way I can think of is to put two labels on the disk, one in
> > block
> > zero offset 64 and one in block one, offset zero. The disk would have
> > to
> > be 'dedicated', i.e. no fdisk partition table.
> 
> That will be fine.  As long as the tools and kernels all agree.
> As it stands now, one cannot move any removable seekable media (other
> than floppy and serial devices) between these machines.
> 
> I would go for fdisk partitions everywhere (has the advantage of more
> than 6-7 partitions per 29GB drive), but DU does not agree with that.

If I had the time, I would pick up the AlphaBIOS loader again. That
requires fdisk partitions to boot from and things could be made to agree
with i386 pretty easily.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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