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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:08:17 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233
Message-ID:  <8s4d41$2ptq$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <200010120144.SAA12166@usr09.primenet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010111908510.52023-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

> The other issue here is that 'dangerously dedicated' for Alpha and
> 'dangerously dedicated' for i386 are not interoperable for FreeBSD- despite
> the fact that the disklabel program says the types and sizes of partititions
> are identical.

Are you saying the disklabel program on i386 can actually read the
disklabel on an alpha disk or vice versa?  I'm under the impression
(from <sys/disklabel.h>) that the disklabels are simply in different
places for the two architectures.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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