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  • fdisk vs. BSD disklabels and slices

    From Matt Turner@21:1/5 to rct@gherkin.frus.com on Sun Jan 6 23:50:01 2019
    On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 2:31 PM Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com> wrote:

    Has anyone reading this used a recent version of "fdisk" to create a BSD disklabel and disk slices from scratch on an Alpha? If so, would you
    please describe the procedure in enough detail that relevant Linux installation documentation could be updated? It would seem to be anything *but* intuitive :-(.

    fdisk's BSD disklabel support has been unusable raw disks, as far as I understand, since v2.23. See https://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11869.html

    If "fdisk" is the wrong utility, I need a pointer to the correct one(s).
    At this point, I'm seriously considering digging out my old Debian 4.0
    CDs and harvesting the essential pieces.

    As always, thanks in advance.

    Use 'parted' instead. It works well. Reminds me that I need to change
    the Gentoo handbook to reference parted instead of fdisk.

    For what it's worth, the new Gentoo "install-alpha-minimal" image fixed
    the "qla1280" firmware loading issue for the most part (a module reload
    is required to get the firmware to load).

    Good to hear. I suspect the module is in the initramfs but the
    firmware is on the root file system. Hmm..

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  • From Bob Tracy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 6 23:40:01 2019
    Has anyone reading this used a recent version of "fdisk" to create a BSD disklabel and disk slices from scratch on an Alpha? If so, would you
    please describe the procedure in enough detail that relevant Linux
    installation documentation could be updated? It would seem to be anything *but* intuitive :-(.

    If "fdisk" is the wrong utility, I need a pointer to the correct one(s).
    At this point, I'm seriously considering digging out my old Debian 4.0
    CDs and harvesting the essential pieces.

    As always, thanks in advance.

    For what it's worth, the new Gentoo "install-alpha-minimal" image fixed
    the "qla1280" firmware loading issue for the most part (a module reload
    is required to get the firmware to load).

    --Bob

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  • From Bob Tracy@21:1/5 to Matt Turner on Mon Jan 7 00:30:01 2019
    On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 02:46:54PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
    On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 2:31 PM Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com> wrote:

    Has anyone reading this used a recent version of "fdisk" to create a BSD disklabel and disk slices from scratch on an Alpha? If so, would you please describe the procedure in enough detail that relevant Linux installation documentation could be updated? It would seem to be anything *but* intuitive :-(.

    fdisk's BSD disklabel support has been unusable raw disks, as far as I understand, since v2.23. See https://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11869.html

    If "fdisk" is the wrong utility, I need a pointer to the correct one(s).
    At this point, I'm seriously considering digging out my old Debian 4.0
    CDs and harvesting the essential pieces.

    As always, thanks in advance.

    Use 'parted' instead. It works well. Reminds me that I need to change
    the Gentoo handbook to reference parted instead of fdisk.

    For what it's worth, the new Gentoo "install-alpha-minimal" image fixed
    the "qla1280" firmware loading issue for the most part (a module reload
    is required to get the firmware to load).

    Good to hear. I suspect the module is in the initramfs but the
    firmware is on the root file system. Hmm..

    Re: parted. Thanks. Presumably included in the i-a-m image: count on
    me to say something if not :-). Appreciate the steer.

    --Bob

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