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Re: md (software) RAID missing in the installer for sparc



On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > It _is_ supported, but the option "Use as RAID" will not be shown if the 
> > current partition starts on sector 0 of the disk because that would 
> > overwrite the Sun disklabel info.
> 
> | 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).

Further, it seems that this is supported by
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#disklabel which says:

* (sparc/sparc64) Don't put swap at the very beginning of your disk.

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