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Date:      Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:11:17 +0200
From:      Gyrd Thane Lange <gyrd-se@thanelange.no>
To:        "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
Cc:        Jorg Andersson <jorg_andersson@lavabit.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partitioning for multiple systems
Message-ID:  <49F5D925.5040302@thanelange.no>
In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0904270238m2656dcdfi2da480e2ca77fa7e@mail.gmail.com>
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illoai@gmail.com skrev:
> 2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson <jorg_andersson@lavabit.com>:
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
>>> I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all
>> I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this
>> still the case?
> 
> They show up just fine here (8-current),
> and I am fairly sure they were visible in
> /dev when I was running 7.x
> 
> The "big deal" is that you can't (easily)
> install FreeBSD on a logical slice.
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3194

I've had my FreeBSD running from a logical slice for a while now. It's 
not too hard to do if you already have a working FreeBSD on one of the 
primary slices.

To be able to boot the system I use a patched GRUB boot manager and a 
patched FreeBSD /boot/loader

The tricky part is bootstrapping the system to get all this in place.

Gyrd ^_^




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