From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 11:19:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5A0106564A for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:19:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carton@Ivy.NET) Received: from sakima.Ivy.NET (sakima.Ivy.NET [IPv6:2610:1f8:dc:41:220:edff:fe27:e764]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44918FC19 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:19:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carton@Ivy.NET) Received: from castrovalva.Ivy.NET (castrovalva.Ivy.NET [IPv6:2610:1f8:dc:c0::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sakima.Ivy.NET (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34F7A8093 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:16:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by castrovalva.Ivy.NET (Postfix, from userid 405) id DC5DD12FD0D; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:19:20 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org References: <57797.91.95.8.243.1216313772.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> <64373.91.95.8.243.1216323299.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> <49814.91.95.8.243.1216416842.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> From: Miles Nordin MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="pgp-sign-Multipart_Sun_Jul_20_07:19:08_2008-1"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:19:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49814.91.95.8.243.1216416842.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> (Didrik Madheden's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:34:02 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: T-gnus/6.17.2 (based on No Gnus v0.2) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.4 (alpha--netbsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Subject: Re: Sparc64 partitions compatible with PC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:19:23 -0000 --pgp-sign-Multipart_Sun_Jul_20_07:19:08_2008-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >>>>> "dm" == Didrik Madheden writes: dm> 2016 blocks too long. possibly the command line tools like fdisk and bsdlabel will let you enter with better resolution? i don't know. dm> *Does it really matter? will FreeBSD perhaps compensate dm> for the offset and still work? How fuzzy is it? It's not at all fuzzy. The start of the partition has to be exactly the same, down to the sector, as when the filesystem was created. The size of the partition has to be at least as big as when the filesystem was created, but may harmlessly be bigger. The geometry (cylinders per disk, heads per cylinder, sectors per track) doesn't matter, only the offset and size in sectors. dm> I suppose T for toggle newfs=N will do the job, but I'm dm> paranoid, so I want a second opinion. second opinion is, don't use the installer at all. Install onto another disk, or use a livecd. but it's just an opinion. Remember not to make any extended MBR partitions, ever. It may actually be a problem just to make an MBR partition with a BSD label inside it, because the label could get written at the beginning of the MBR slice, somewhere in the middle of your sparc partition. # size offset # ---------- ---------- a: 20972448 0 b: 2097648 41612 c: 54757584 0 d: 20972448 20806 e: 737378208 43693 ^^^ this is a crazy disklabel with lots of overlapping partitions. AFAICT it's not right. --pgp-sign-Multipart_Sun_Jul_20_07:19:08_2008-1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (NetBSD) iQCVAwUASIMfOInCBbTaW/4dAQJrBwP9HuKManUvvz6a68WOUkmsgbqrOQ4dBsZd Sz3HGWrVZBv3iJS8UKhQzOrdcFL0t0OSaMP9zqB+Lbn/DrzZzSLzUsaU19gL2koh CtsSEntyyo/e/gzl2asEnfNT/jSFYioMeYBlCvGCZ/88qlxg7N9B0Zc4OIjNTSmE JoqLkT5SyHo= =nWLm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp-sign-Multipart_Sun_Jul_20_07:19:08_2008-1--