Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:21:49 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Holm Tiffe <holm@freibergnet.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No support for slices? Message-ID: <20031212112148.GX42518@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20031212103148.GA96371@pegasus.freiberg-net.de> References: <20031212103148.GA96371@pegasus.freiberg-net.de>
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:31:48AM +0100, Holm Tiffe wrote: > I've read somwhere in the doc's, that freebsd-alpha does*nt support > partitioning of the drives, since srm does'nt support it or can't boot > from partitions. 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. > My experience with an USB Memory stick is, that the stick gets detected > an an /dev/da[something] is created in /dev, but the /dev/da[something]s1 > for the fat filesystem on this stick is'nt created, so I can't mount the fs. > fdisk does'nt exist on this platform. GEOM in 5.2 should be able to handle foreign partition shemes. If there are problems with that you should ask on -current list. > It seems to me, that dropping support for PC partition tables is the wrong > way .... Well - it is not dropping support it was never required for that platform. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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