Ross Harvey drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> Wow, does that really work?  Don't you have to at least drop a sparc
> disklabel onto it, do the mount, and then go back to an alpha disklabel by
> rewriting the label and alpha bootblocks with cross-compiled utilities on
> the sparc? (A second drive, even an crummy old tiny one would really make
> this a lot easier, because then you could obviously dd(1) cdhdtape onto it
> and then rewrite the labels and stuff from NetBSD/alpha.)

hmmm, i suppose i hadn't thought of that, but sparc and alpha definitely don't
grok each other's disklabels.

> I a bit confused here, what's the value of having cdhdtape in swap?  The
> alpha firmware departs from older practice of understanding disklabels
> and booting from specified partitions ... AFAIK it just doesn't do that.
> So, cdhdtape has to start at sector 0.

nope, doesn't do that, tried, failed miserably.

cheers,

-brian