On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:

> I must admit my ignorance.  But, I thought that FreeBSD runs on other
> architectures than just i386, and so (naively) thought that they might be
> using the same scheme for them also.  How does FreeBSD handle this in case
> of non-i386 architectures ?  Same as NetBSD ?

	I believe FreeBSD runs on recent alphas, which probably understand
	MBR partitioning - (I could be very wrong in that). It would be
	interesting to see how they handle other architectures with
	radically different disklabel characteristics (like early alphas
	or sun sparc systems)

                David/absolute
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