From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 10:47:20 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 8EAD137B66C for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13jmRo-0008TS-00; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:47:16 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9CHkG614255 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:46:16 +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 17:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8s4td8$dhe$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <8s4d41$2ptq$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > I haven't looked at the code., Yes, of course it should. A disklabel is a > disklabel. But it is in different places on different platforms. I suspect this is not entirely gratuitous and somewhat affected by platform-dependent bootstrap requirements. On i386, the label is at sector 1, offset 0. On alpha, it's at sector 0, offset 64. I've just looked through OpenBSD's collection of /sys/arch/*/include/disklabel.h, and those two places seem to be the most popular ones but by no means the only ones. For the MVME[68]8k machines it's at sector 0, offset 0, and the Atari and HP300 platforms have more complicated locations. -- 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