From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 6:31: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D6D37B66D for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 06:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13jiRp-0000zA-00; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:31:01 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9CCxsf92425 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:59:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8s4cka$2ptq$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200010120144.SAA12166@usr09.primenet.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > SRM doesn't grok MSDOS partitions, and SRM is the only supported boot montor. > IF the Alpha distribution can create something that can't > be booted by the only supported boot monitor > THEN yes, the tools are broken. But that's not the case. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't use sysinstall on alpha to create a sliced disk. There is only the "L)abel" menu option. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message