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).
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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