Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 08:17:09 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: mailinglists@debank.tv Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdlabel and sparc Message-ID: <419F5FF5.3020409@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <25075.81.206.188.203.1100890359.squirrel@81.206.188.203> References: <25075.81.206.188.203.1100890359.squirrel@81.206.188.203>
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mailinglists@debank.tv wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a bit in the dark how to use the bsdlabel facility on FBSD-5.3-STABLE. > I'm supposed to give an architecture flag but it doesn't support sparc64. > What's going wrong (or better yet: what am I doing wrong ?) > The system is an Ultra-10. > > > bavke# bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0 > bsdlabel: a -m <architecture> option must be specified > > bavke# bsdlabel -e -m sparc64 /dev/ad0 > bsdlabel: Unsupported architecture > > bavke# bsdlabel -e -m i386 /dev/ad0 > bsdlabel: /dev/ad0: no valid label found > > > bavke# mount > /dev/ad0a on / (ufs, local) > devfs on /dev (devfs, local) > /dev/ad1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > > Rob Evers You should actually be using the 'sunlabel' program on this platform since that is the format that the firmware expects. The 'disklabel' program is installed as a link to the appropriate label program for the platform. Scott
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