From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 30 10:47:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F0E37B4C5; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:47:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9UIkkf76255; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:46:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001030055905.C41250@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:47:43 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, Matt Dillon Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:24:17PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: >> I think that the days of the 'dangerously dedicated partition' are >> numbered. > > Not quite. We don't do slices on the Alpha -- in fact our slice code > royally screws the Alpha users as it isn't nicely layered and thus hard > to avoid. But dangerously dedicated mode isn't used on the alpha. All of this stuff is purely x86-specific. The alpha just uses a disklabel instead of an MBR. Dangerously dedicated stuffs a disklabel into an MBR along with other ugliness. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message