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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:30:05 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        seifert@sequent.com (David Seifert), alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PALcode 
Message-ID:  <199810122330.QAA00521@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:08:26 -0000." <199810122008.NAA21219@usr07.primenet.com> 

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> > Similar deal with the console software.
> > SRM for VMS and Unix, ARC or AlphaBIOS for NT.
> > 
> > ARC cannot read a BSD disklabel.
> 
> I'm also not married to BSD disklabels.

Fortunately, neither are we.  There'll be no problems booting off a 
disk sliced up for ARC, nor slicing it in the first place.  It'll also 
be a great argument for the /boot concept, as /boot will probably be 
the FAT boot filesystem that ARC seems to need.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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