Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:53:04 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010301052180.14689-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001030104743.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 30-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:24:17PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > >> I think that the days of the 'dangerously dedicated partition' are > >> numbered. > > > > Not quite. We don't do slices on the Alpha -- in fact our slice code > > royally screws the Alpha users as it isn't nicely layered and thus hard > > to avoid. > > But dangerously dedicated mode isn't used on the alpha. All of this > stuff is purely x86-specific. The alpha just uses a disklabel instead > of an MBR. Dangerously dedicated stuffs a disklabel into an MBR along > with other ugliness. Huh? This must be a semantic issue since alpha uses nothing but 'dangerously dedicated'- at least in terms of how to use disklabel to create a usable disk on FreeBSD alpha. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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