Re: installboot killing disklabel?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Jul 3, 2018, at 8:10 AM, Anders Högrelius <ahs%hogrelius.nu@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Correct me if I’m wrong here, but i386 and thus also AMD expects the disklabel to be in sector 1 as it needs the space in sector 0 for the boot sector. Alpha and others do not use a boot sector and expects the disklabel to be in sector 0. 
> 
> Could this be the reason why it gets trashed?

Yes, this is what I was referring to in my subsequent email.

It's not that it's trashed, it's just not where the Alpha expects to find it.

> 
> Anders
> 
> 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

-- thorpej