From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 26 8:30:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sentinel.office1.bg (sentinel.office1.bg [195.24.48.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CD1C37B42C for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8930 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Sep 2000 15:30:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:30:28 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Zhiui Zhang Cc: Doug White , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition Message-ID: <20000926183028.D2616@ringwraith.office1.bg> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:25:35AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess what Doug meant was (at least as far as I've seen in other postings) the current FreeBSD boot loader does not support booting from extended partitions. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence was in the past tense. On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:25:35AM -0400, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > > > > > > > I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a > > > DOS extended partition. > > > > Good luck booting it. > > Do you mean as long as I can boot it, the kernel itself has no problem > with being putting into a DOS extended partition? First of all, it seems > to me that there is no way to put FreeBSD in an extended partition without > modifying /stand/sysintall. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message