Re: fdisk and native partition formats (was: Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink))
> On Dec 14, Eric Delaunay scrawled :
> Btw, how other arches (alpha, ppc, m68k, ...) are supposed to work with non
> native partition formats ? Is there a need for such a scheme for them ?
> Or is it just an artifact of sparc fdisk that also support i386 partitions?
>
alpha can work with either 386 partitioning or BSD style. It depends on the
boot method used as to which partitioning style can be used. There are two
console types available and both are not available on all machine types :(
cya,
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