Subject: Re: Need help with disklabel on sparc64
To: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/25/2003 18:16:52
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:09:26PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> i386 uses MBR.  SPARCs use Sun disklabels.  Even with FFSIE support
> in the kernel you can't move disks between them.

True. One exception though: with no label at all on the disk and FFSIE
support in the i386 kernel you will be able to create a "whole disk"
filesystem by using /dev/rwd0d (on i386).

I don't see how this could help in the situation discussed here - so just
ignore it.

Martin