From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 5 12:41: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C1237B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA17081; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:40:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id fB5KeX246454; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:40:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15374.34369.492419.52249@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:40:33 -0500 (EST) To: "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk slices In-Reply-To: References: <20011205213007.A5911@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ] writes: > Yes my box boots and I was able to recompile the kernel. > > The df through me when I saw > > da0a > da0e > > and not > > da0s1a > da0s1e > > The alpha port doesn't use slices (fdisk partitions) because the SRM console doesn't understand them & it cannot boot from them. The alpha port has never used slices. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message