Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:38:58 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No support for slices? Message-ID: <20031213003856.GB82276@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <brdii8$2302$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20031212103148.GA96371@pegasus.freiberg-net.de> <20031212112148.GX42518@cicely12.cicely.de> <brdii8$2302$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:21:44PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> wrote: > > > It does support partitioning (disklabel style), but it doesn't have to > > use fdisk style slices. > > SRM doesn't care about partition style at all - it takes the bootrecord > > and that's it. > > IIRC, SRM excepts bootrecord information in the same place taken > up by incompatible information in an fdisk-style MBR. Naturaly a PC master boot record is of no use on alphas. The question is more if the partition table itself collides with SRM bootrecords - I don't know fdisk partitions well enough to tell. Doesn't linux use fdisk style partitions on alpha? -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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