From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 5 17:37:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.thebiz.net (mx1.thebiz.net [216.238.0.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F04D937B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:37:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22038 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 20:37:19 -0500 Received: from unknown (172.16.0.72) by 172.16.0.178 with QMQP; 5 Dec 2001 20:37:19 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO staff.noc.thebiz.net) (216.238.1.10) by mail.thebiz.net with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 20:37:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:37:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" X-Sender: tholmes@staff.noc.thebiz.net To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk slices In-Reply-To: <15374.34369.492419.52249@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The alpha port doesn't use slices (fdisk partitions) because the SRM > console doesn't understand them & it cannot boot from them. The alpha > port has never used slices. OK I confirmed that I'm a dumba$$ and on the other alpha there are NO slices. Sorry it was one of those days :) Again, thanks all! ________________ http://www.BiznessOnline.com ________________ Thomas Holmes Bizness Online Unix Systems Engineer Suite 1801 tholmes@thebiz.net 11 North Pearl St. (518) 533-6522 Albany, NY, 12207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message