On 7/17/19 11:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 04:11:44PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> systemd works the same way on my Alpha XP-1000 as it works on my Intel boxes. > > Interesting. It doesn't work on mine; it fails to mount the > filesystems even when I recently tried a new install into a > spare partition (but I did use debootstrap to install, not the > installer disk).
There isn't really anything specific to the Alpha architecture which would break that. >> I assume you are talking about the non-functionality of a separate /usr >> partition, >> but this is something that isn't guaranteed to work well on Linux, > > Pardon? A separate /usr partition has always been supported on > Linux, so I am not sure what you are tallking about... It's not really supported anymore: > https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/ > https://lwn.net/Articles/670071/ We have recently had a similar discussion on the debian-68k mailing list. The gist is: A lot of projects don't test their code on systems with separate /usr partitions anymore, so things get silently broken. >>> The other question I have is whether or not someone has fixed >>> the issue with fdisk on the system, > > fdisk is a lost cause. It no longer supports a BSD partition. I > believe the maintainer of fdisk was spoken to about this quite some > time ago but was not interested in fixing it. I agree. parted is the preferred tool these days. > It is a while since I have partitioned a disk for Alpha but I think > parted should work. Yep. Works fine for me with debian-installer. >> debian-installer doesn't use fdisk (anymore), it uses partman. Did you try >> any of >> the recent installation images, see [1]. Please note these images are >> currently >> shipped without proprietary firmware. > > Yeah, that's a problem for any Alpha with a Qlogic SCSI controller. It's on my TODO list. It's just not trivial since I need to modify debian-cd to be able to merge the contrib and non-free repositories from the main FTP servers during CD image build. I will hopefully solve that issue soon. I have vacation next week so I will most likely be working on the problem. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913