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mailinglists@debank.tv wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a bit in the dark how to use the bsdlabel facility on FBSD-5.3-STABLE.
> I'm supposed to give an architecture flag but it doesn't support sparc64.
> What's going wrong (or better yet: what am I doing wrong ?)
> The system is an Ultra-10.
> 
> 
> bavke# bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0
> bsdlabel: a -m <architecture> option must be specified
> 
> bavke# bsdlabel -e -m sparc64 /dev/ad0
> bsdlabel: Unsupported architecture
> 
> bavke# bsdlabel -e -m i386 /dev/ad0
> bsdlabel: /dev/ad0: no valid label found
> 
> 
> bavke# mount
> /dev/ad0a on / (ufs, local)
> devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
> /dev/ad1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> 
> 
> Rob Evers

You should actually be using the 'sunlabel' program on this platform
since that is the format that the firmware expects.  The 'disklabel'
program is installed as a link to the appropriate label program for
the platform.

Scott