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Re: installboot killing disklabel?



Also note that “label sector” and “label offset” may be different between x86 and Alpha (I don’t recall off hand).  That would also cause problems (x86 would write it to the wrong location).

-- thorpej
Sent from my iPhone.

> On Jul 3, 2018, at 7:54 AM, Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Yes, fallout from the dumb decision to make ‘d’ the raw (whole disk) partition on i386 back in ancient history.
> 
> The entire way we do disk partitioning is a mess, and I never really had the time to make “wedges” what I envisioned it to be.  Maybe I’ll take another crack at it one day.
> 
> -- thorpej
> Sent from my iPhone.
> 
>> On Jul 3, 2018, at 12:22 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> This does look wrong, alpha should have 'd' as 'c'.
>> 
>> Martin


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