Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:15:54 +0200 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> To: Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com> Cc: timon@memphis.mephi.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from extended partitions Message-ID: <20020721151554.3c53513e.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20020721020952.4e61aefc.brad@brad-x.com> References: <20020720174745.A33016@memphis.mephi.ru> <20020721020952.4e61aefc.brad@brad-x.com>
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:09:52 -0400 Brad Laue wrote:
> > Now I'm trying to make boot1 traverse through that big number of
> > nested extendeds, feeding boot2 with the correct slice number, but my
> > not so big knowledge about asm programming (especially AT&T) made me
> > unable to do this correctly - now my version of boot1 takes a bit more
> > than sector length (548 bytes instead of 512).
> > Another way, which seems to me too ugly (but I'm forced to use
> > it for now) is to make boot1 recognize extended slices like a freebsd
> > ones, and place patched code of boot2 in free space of first extended
> > slice, which looks for freebsd slice itself.
> > If someone is interested, I can place my code somewhere on the
> > net to see whether one may optimize it more than I can.
> > p.s. I've also wrote a patch for fdisk which allowed it to see all
> > partitions of disk, but it didn't attract attention of anyone from
> > commiters, though.
i'd be very interessted in the boot1 code, so publish the patches ;]
> I'd be very interested in seeing your progress on this, and I think
> Simon 'corecode' Schultz would be as well - looking forward to it!
^^
it's schubert, but i don't really care ;) remember corecode and it's fine
cheers
simon
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