From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 25 19:25:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5E037B402 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:25:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1Q3PnV69692; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:25:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: yvictorovich@optima-hyper.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem booting Alpha AS1000A Message-ID: <20020225192549.A69622@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15482.54141.628252.60192@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15482.54141.628252.60192@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:14:53PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:14:53PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > You cannot & must not use slicese, only real BSD partition. > > This really needs to be emphasized somewhere in a FAQ. Lots of people > make the same mistake you did. How are people using slices? I don't know of any of our tools that allow this. So I am not sure how people believe they are using slices (or are using them). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message