Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:49:55 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No support for slices? Message-ID: <bri4bj$2hfi$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20031212103148.GA96371@pegasus.freiberg-net.de> <20031212112148.GX42518@cicely12.cicely.de> <brdii8$2302$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20031213003856.GB82276@cicely12.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> wrote: > Naturaly a PC master boot record is of no use on alphas. > The question is more if the partition table itself collides with SRM > bootrecords - I don't know fdisk partitions well enough to tell. The MBR partition entries start at offset 446, there are four entries of 16 bytes each, followed by a 0x55 0xAA signature. This collides with SRM's bootstrap size, sector number, 0x0, and checksum longs at the end of the first sector. > Doesn't linux use fdisk style partitions on alpha? Only if booting from (ARC through) MILO. When booting from SRM, it uses a BSD/DEC UNIX disklabel. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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