On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:34:40PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
>> I'm not able to figure out how to make a BSD disklabel in fdisk since v2.23.
>>
>> Gentoo's installation guide describes the process of partitioning a
>> disk for SRM/Alpha [1]. How should one do this now?
>>
>> With my distro's util-linux-2.25 I don't see any option that resembles
>> BSD disklabels -- I see only
>>
>> Create a new label
>> g create a new empty GPT partition table
>> G create a new empty SGI (IRIX) partition table
>> o create a new empty DOS partition table
>> s create a new empty Sun partition table
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> You have to create a DOS (MBR) label first, and then there is
>
> DOS (MBR)
> a toggle a bootable flag
> b edit nested BSD disklabel
> c toggle the dos compatibility flag
>
>
> For example:
>
> # fdisk /dev/sdc
> ...
> Command (m for help): n
> Partition type
> p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
> e extended (container for logical partitions)
> Select (default p): p
> Partition number (1-4, default 1):
> First sector (2048-1023999, default 2048):
> Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-1023999, default 1023999):
>
> Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 499 MiB.
> ...
> Command (m for help): t <----!!!
> Partition type (type L to list all types): a5
> Changed type of partition 'Linux' to 'FreeBSD'.
> ...
> Command (m for help): b <----!!!
> The device /dev/sdc1 does not contain BSD disklabel.
>
> Do you want to create a BSD disklabel? [Y]es/[N]o: y
> ...
> Command (m for help): p
> ...
> Slice Start End Sectors Size Type Fsize Bsize Cpg
> c 2048 1023999 1021952 499M unused 0 0 0
> d 0 1023059 1023060 499.6M unused 0 0 0
>
>
> Karel
>
> --
> Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> http://karelzak.blogspot.com
Thanks for the reply.
We have a user reporting that this is not sufficient to make a
bootable disk layout for DEC Alpha/SRM. Please see
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1025044.html
I take it that this is unexpected?
Thanks,
Matt
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