Re: Changes in disk layout in VAX?????
"Todd C. Miller" <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:08:59 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.vax |
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In message <[email protected]> so spake Hugo Villeneuve (harpagon): > Is that 8k free space at the beginning is also true for the swap > partition? Under OpenBSD, yes. > Does disklabel force a FFS partition at the beginning of the disk? > (Like on sparc "a" must start at sector 0). No. If the vax secondary boot is small enough to fit it shouldn't be hard to stash it in the first 8KB (have to be careful not to trounce the label of course ;-) We used to do this on i386. - todd