On 30-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:24:17PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
>> I think that the days of the 'dangerously dedicated partition' are
>> numbered.
>
> Not quite. We don't do slices on the Alpha -- in fact our slice code
> royally screws the Alpha users as it isn't nicely layered and thus hard
> to avoid.
But dangerously dedicated mode isn't used on the alpha. All of this
stuff is purely x86-specific. The alpha just uses a disklabel instead
of an MBR. Dangerously dedicated stuffs a disklabel into an MBR along
with other ugliness.
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