From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 5 12:57:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.thebiz.net (mx1.thebiz.net [216.238.0.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1A9837B41B for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:57:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31432 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 15:57:23 -0500 Received: from unknown (172.16.0.80) by 172.16.0.178 with QMQP; 5 Dec 2001 15:57:23 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO staff.noc.thebiz.net) (216.238.1.10) by mail.thebiz.net with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 15:57:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:57:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" X-Sender: tholmes@staff.noc.thebiz.net To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk slices In-Reply-To: <15374.34369.492419.52249@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 alrighty then, I guess I'm just loosing my mind :) I will double check my 4.3->4.4 box and if the df shows the slice I will grab a screen shot! Thanks guys, you rule! On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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 > > ________________ http://www.BiznessOnline.com ________________ Thomas Holmes Bizness Online Unix Systems Engineer Suite 1801 tholmes@thebiz.net 11 North Pearl St. (518) 533-6522 Albany, NY, 12207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message