Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 22:09:24 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Muthu_T@Dell.com Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 20040502 snapshot + Dell PE3250 Message-ID: <20040510050924.GA6104@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <DF2929AADC696949827B93534462FBA14DAFB6@blrx2kmbgl202.blr.amer.dell.com> References: <DF2929AADC696949827B93534462FBA14DAFB6@blrx2kmbgl202.blr.amer.dell.com>
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On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:18:11AM +0530, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: > > While Partition Creation Screen(DiskLabel Editor), I am seeing 2 > issues. > > 1. In the normal x86 installation, sysinstall first create the Slice in > the selected > Disk and then it will goto DiskLabel Editor to create partitions on the > slice. > I couldn't see this step in IA64 install. It skips the Slice creation > and directly > Goes to Partition creation Screen. What is the reason behind this? There are no slices on ia64 or put differently, there's no need for a secord level partitioning scheme if you have all the space in the GPT. So where on i386 you need two levels (MBR + BSD disklabel) for various reasons, on ia64 this can all be handled by the GPT. > 2. In the current partition creation(disklabel editor) screen, I can see > only > EFI partition as 100MB size. Actually I already has RedHat AS 2.1 > installed on this machine. > But that ext2 & swap partition are not displayed at all. Will > sysinstall/IA64 doesn't understand > Linux & other Oses(windoz)? FreeBSD doesn't do anything yet with foreign partitions. Unfortunately, the sysinstall tool destroys foreign partitions. This clearly is a bug. This was not intended. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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