From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 6 1:40:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D93F14CBE for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 01:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA82729; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:41:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:41:08 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Simon Shapiro Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > The only way I can think of is to put two labels on the disk, one in > > block > > zero offset 64 and one in block one, offset zero. The disk would have > > to > > be 'dedicated', i.e. no fdisk partition table. > > That will be fine. As long as the tools and kernels all agree. > As it stands now, one cannot move any removable seekable media (other > than floppy and serial devices) between these machines. > > I would go for fdisk partitions everywhere (has the advantage of more > than 6-7 partitions per 29GB drive), but DU does not agree with that. If I had the time, I would pick up the AlphaBIOS loader again. That requires fdisk partitions to boot from and things could be made to agree with i386 pretty easily. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message