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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:21:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010120920540.53296-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <8s4d41$2ptq$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
> 
> > The other issue here is that 'dangerously dedicated' for Alpha and
> > 'dangerously dedicated' for i386 are not interoperable for FreeBSD- despite
> > the fact that the disklabel program says the types and sizes of partititions
> > are identical.
> 
> Are you saying the disklabel program on i386 can actually read the
> disklabel on an alpha disk or vice versa?  I'm under the impression
> (from <sys/disklabel.h>) that the disklabels are simply in different
> places for the two architectures.

I haven't looked at the code., Yes, of course it should. A disklabel is a
disklabel.

-matt




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