From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 18:19:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F6E16A517; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:19:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from smtpoutm.mac.com (smtpoutm.mac.com [17.148.16.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBA613C4E5; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:19:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (asmtp001-s [10.150.69.64]) by smtpoutm.mac.com (Xserve/smtpout007/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id lBEIJ3hr022362; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:19:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mini-g4.jnpr.net (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/asmtp001/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id lBEIIugb028714 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:18:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <998654FC-D003-4B80-9339-C4165DB5336C@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: grehan@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4762AB8E.8010308@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:18:55 -0800 References: <9cf5ced20712131308j72173957u8656386d2330e982@mail.gmail.com> <4761A790.6060501@freebsd.org> <9cf5ced20712131507o55377136w90a61c921bf1c106@mail.gmail.com> <9cf5ced20712131853r2c764c9bj3121235eef12cbb1@mail.gmail.com> <47621F28.6070703@freebsd.org> <9cf5ced20712140537i5438f99eia4bd3aa82585fa97@mail.gmail.com> <4762AB8E.8010308@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What machine(s) is the PPC iso suposed to boot on? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:19:04 -0000 On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Peter Grehan wrote: >>> Swap too? > > Yep, FreeBSD pays no attention to the type of partition other than > listing it as available for use. This changes. Already with gpart you cannot make kernel dumps on partitions that are not of type "freebsd-swap". In the future we will probably have newfs(8) check the partition-type in order to determine which file-system to create. The same applies to fsck(8). Fortunately: the tools are there in FreeBSD to repartition and change partition types. The only problem is that we don't have them available during installation. It is my intend to have sysinstall switch to gpart on platforms that most need it. However, it's not something that will happen for 7.0-RELEASE... -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com