No support for slices?

[Christian Weisgerber]

Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely.de> wrote:

> 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.

The MBR partition entries start at offset 446, there are four entries
of 16 bytes each, followed by a 0x55 0xAA signature.  This collides
with SRM's bootstrap size, sector number, 0x0, and checksum longs at
the end of the first sector.

> Doesn't linux use fdisk style partitions on alpha?

Only if booting from (ARC through) MILO.  When booting from SRM,
it uses a BSD/DEC UNIX disklabel.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de