Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:41:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <20001012044106.D87859@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:48:39AM %2B0000 References: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:48:39AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Andrew Gallatin writes:
> > - You installed on a disk with an fdisk table (eg root is da0s1a and not da0a)
> > -- You cannot use fdisk slices on alpha boot disks.
>
> How is this possible, using the system tools, if Alpha cannot boot
> from it? Are they broken?
YES, libdisk is totally fucked WRT the Alpha. As is our kernel's slice
code.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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