From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 9:21:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3490337B502 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA31383; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:21:34 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:21:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 In-Reply-To: <8s4d41$2ptq$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Matthew Jacob 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 ) 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message