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From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:21:44PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> wrote:
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> > It does support partitioning (disklabel style), but it doesn't have to
> > use fdisk style slices.
> > SRM doesn't care about partition style at all - it takes the bootrecord
> > and that's it.
> 
> IIRC, SRM excepts bootrecord information in the same place taken
> up by incompatible information in an fdisk-style MBR.

Naturaly a PC master boot record is of no use on alphas.
The question is more if the partition table itself collides with SRM
bootrecords - I don't know fdisk partitions well enough to tell.
Doesn't linux use fdisk style partitions on alpha?

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B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
ticso@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de