fdisk on alpha not working?

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Maybe I'm doing something completely wrong, but when I use fdisk to create the bsd partition table on my /dev/sda, when I write the lable and quit, I don't get an entry for /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc. If I use cfdisk, it appears no problem, but my understanding is that I can't use cfdisk to create the partition table and use aboot to boot my system. Can anyone comment on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks.