Re: Bloody alpha ignorant
Philip Kendall <pak21@srcf.ucam.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:29:57AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> > You can see that, while 'c' occupies from sector 1 until 39693, its
> > filesystem is marked as 'unused' - Alphas, as many other Unix
> > architectures, require partition c to be the 'wholedisk' partition.
>
> Is that actually true for Linux?
No, Linux doesn't need that. If all you use on your Alpha is Linux,
I'd even advise against having the 'wholedisk' partition, as it just
leads to confusion (you need to force swriteboot to ignore it etc.)
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