On Sunday 01 April 2007 15:24, Josip Rodin wrote: > But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting: [...] > | The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap > | writes from first block and avoid silo block. If swap begins on the > | cylinder 1, openprom cannot boot (ther is not MBR on sparc > | architecture). > > This was in reply to another person's question, and that person (who > had a problem) had swap as the first partition. I don't see how you conclude one from the other. AFAIK RAID also writes its signatures on the first block and this causes the same problem as swap does. (No idea what "fd" stands for.) Anyway, I trust the sparc porters (Fabio in this case) on this. I may have confused disklabel with silo data. The fact remains that RAID is only supported in D-I on partitions that do not start at the beginning of the disk.
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