On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 2:31 PM Bob Tracy <rct@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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..
