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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:43:41 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c disk.c libdisk.h rules.c
Message-ID:  <20021029124341.A76240@kayak.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <200210291213.g9TCDaSF005895@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200210291213.g9TCDaSF005895@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:13:36AM -0800, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> phk         2002/10/29 04:13:36 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     lib/libdisk          Makefile chunk.c disk.c libdisk.h rules.c 
>   Log:
[snip]
>   
>   I need to sort out alpha, pc98 and ia64 (in that order) before
>   testing on those platforms make a lot of sense.
>   
>   Belived to work for:    i386 sparc64
>   Unknown state:          pc98 alpha ia64
[snip]

GPT based systems like ia64 probably need some fundamental changes.
Tools like fsck(8) require a disklabel to figure out the partition
type. GPT based system do not necessarily have disklabels. I haven't
paid much or any attention to the GEOM related changes yet, because
there's no point to draw attention away from the level 1 platforms.

But the state on (at least my) ia64 is that it's pure GPT, booting
fine and sorely in need of having sysinstall and fsck(8) working :-)

JFYI,

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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