bsdlabel and sparc

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 19 13:53:46 PST 2004


On Friday 19 November 2004 01:52 pm, mailinglists at debank.tv wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a bit in the dark how to use the bsdlabel facility on FBSD-5.3-STABLE.
> I'm supposed to give an architecture flag but it doesn't support sparc64.
> What's going wrong (or better yet: what am I doing wrong ?)
> The system is an Ultra-10.
>
>
> bavke# bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0
> bsdlabel: a -m <architecture> option must be specified
>
> bavke# bsdlabel -e -m sparc64 /dev/ad0
> bsdlabel: Unsupported architecture
>
> bavke# bsdlabel -e -m i386 /dev/ad0
> bsdlabel: /dev/ad0: no valid label found
>
>
> bavke# mount
> /dev/ad0a on / (ufs, local)
> devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
> /dev/ad1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>
>
> Rob Evers

Use sunlabel(8) on sparc64 machines instead of bsdlabel(8).

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