From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 4:34:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A331737B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 04:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F63C43E77 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 04:34:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 20490 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2002 11:27:40 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-87.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (150.140.128.167) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 17 Oct 2002 11:27:40 -0000 Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9HBYsL2084816; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:34:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9HAAv23065640; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:10:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:10:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Jerry McAllister , jmd17@columbia.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: using an extended partition for freebsd Message-ID: <20021017101055.GB14331@hades.hell.gr> References: <200210161434.g9GEYJe19859@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-16 12:43, "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > It just needs slices (which are called partitions by Microsloth). > > Actually, it doesn't. FreeBSD can just have what it calls "partitions", > in which case there won't be a "partition table". But "they" recommend > having one slice anyway; I guess to support software (eg, on a Linux > disk) thatexpects the more common disk layout. Some (broken in my opinion) BIOS implementations will refuse or fail to boot from disks that do not have a "valid partition table". They are simply broken, since it's not that hard to load the master boot record of the first system disk in memory and run its code, but their very existence makes disks with "valid" partition tables a necessity :-/ Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message