From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 4:41:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD8C37B66C for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id EAA88521; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:41:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <20001012044106.D87859@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:48:39AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:48:39AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Andrew Gallatin writes: > > - You installed on a disk with an fdisk table (eg root is da0s1a and not da0a) > > -- You cannot use fdisk slices on alpha boot disks. > > How is this possible, using the system tools, if Alpha cannot boot > from it? Are they broken? YES, libdisk is totally fucked WRT the Alpha. As is our kernel's slice code. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message