From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 30 10:53:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1F337B4CF; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:53:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02553; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:53:06 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:53:04 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: John Baldwin Cc: "David O'Brien" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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