On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:34:00PM +0000, Nathan Paul Simons wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:00:39AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > m68k isn't using PCI. sun4m isn't using PCI. s390 isn't using PCI. > > My ipaq (arm) doesn't use PCI. mips, mipsel doesn't use PCI. My HPPA > > boxen surely doesn't use PCI. sun4u, x86, ia64, ppc all use PCI, but > > that's about it. ia64, s390, ppc and x86 use four different partition > > table formats. Each arch uses its own bootloader. There are a lot of > > small and subtle differences, don't underestimate them. > Not to be anal, but alpha also uses PCI. But it also uses a different > bootloader. Not sure about partition tables (it's been a long time > since I've needed to repartition/reinstall any alpha boxes - thanks > Debian!). Depends on which firmware you have installed. If your machine is set up to run DOS^WNT for Alpha, it'll use DOS partition tables. If it's set up for compatibility with other real OSes, it'll use BSD disklabels. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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