From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 12 16:25:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08801 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08792 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:25:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00521; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810122330.QAA00521@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert cc: seifert@sequent.com (David Seifert), alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PALcode In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:08:26 -0000." <199810122008.NAA21219@usr07.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:30:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Similar deal with the console software. > > SRM for VMS and Unix, ARC or AlphaBIOS for NT. > > > > ARC cannot read a BSD disklabel. > > I'm also not married to BSD disklabels. Fortunately, neither are we. There'll be no problems booting off a disk sliced up for ARC, nor slicing it in the first place. It'll also be a great argument for the /boot concept, as /boot will probably be the FAT boot filesystem that ARC seems to need. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message