From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 03:21:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3707D16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3083B43D2D for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:21:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) (authenticated bits=0) hBCBLpvq005376 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:21:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBCBLoWK093676 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:21:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBCBLo2u081028; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:21:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBCBLng8081027; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:21:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:21:49 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Holm Tiffe Message-ID: <20031212112148.GX42518@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20031212103148.GA96371@pegasus.freiberg-net.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031212103148.GA96371@pegasus.freiberg-net.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.1-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No support for slices? X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:21:59 -0000 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:31:48AM +0100, Holm Tiffe wrote: > I've read somwhere in the doc's, that freebsd-alpha does*nt support > partitioning of the drives, since srm does'nt support it or can't boot > from partitions. It does support partitioning (disklabel style), but it doesn't have to use fdisk style slices. SRM doesn't care about partition style at all - it takes the bootrecord and that's it. > My experience with an USB Memory stick is, that the stick gets detected > an an /dev/da[something] is created in /dev, but the /dev/da[something]s1 > for the fat filesystem on this stick is'nt created, so I can't mount the fs. > fdisk does'nt exist on this platform. GEOM in 5.2 should be able to handle foreign partition shemes. If there are problems with that you should ask on -current list. > It seems to me, that dropping support for PC partition tables is the wrong > way .... Well - it is not dropping support it was never required for that platform. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de