Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:18:55 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: grehan@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What machine(s) is the PPC iso suposed to boot on? Message-ID: <998654FC-D003-4B80-9339-C4165DB5336C@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4762AB8E.8010308@freebsd.org> References: <9cf5ced20712131308j72173957u8656386d2330e982@mail.gmail.com> <4761A790.6060501@freebsd.org> <9cf5ced20712131507o55377136w90a61c921bf1c106@mail.gmail.com> <9cf5ced20712131853r2c764c9bj3121235eef12cbb1@mail.gmail.com> <47621F28.6070703@freebsd.org> <9cf5ced20712140537i5438f99eia4bd3aa82585fa97@mail.gmail.com> <4762AB8E.8010308@freebsd.org>
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On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Peter Grehan wrote: >>> Swap too? > > Yep, FreeBSD pays no attention to the type of partition other than > listing it as available for use. This changes. Already with gpart you cannot make kernel dumps on partitions that are not of type "freebsd-swap". In the future we will probably have newfs(8) check the partition-type in order to determine which file-system to create. The same applies to fsck(8). Fortunately: the tools are there in FreeBSD to repartition and change partition types. The only problem is that we don't have them available during installation. It is my intend to have sysinstall switch to gpart on platforms that most need it. However, it's not something that will happen for 7.0-RELEASE... -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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