From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 21 6:17:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD0A37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 06:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4353243E58 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 06:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corecode@corecode.ath.cx) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17WGaB-0002D5-03; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:17:07 +0200 Received: from spirit.zuhause.stoert.net (320050403952-0001@[217.82.55.42]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17WGa6-1GRKyWC; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:17:02 +0200 Received: from terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (terrorfish.uni.stoert.net [10.150.180.178]) by spirit.zuhause.stoert.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6LDH1Q49419; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:17:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from corecode@corecode.ath.cx) Received: from terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6LDFxEg000610; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:16:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from corecode@terrorfish.uni.stoert.net) Received: (from corecode@localhost) by terrorfish.uni.stoert.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6LDFvpY000609; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:15:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from corecode) Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:15:54 +0200 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" To: Brad Laue 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.aZ1CZl)ytiaAPn" X-Sender: 320050403952-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=.aZ1CZl)ytiaAPn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/#donate \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --=.aZ1CZl)ytiaAPn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9OrQNr5S+dk6z85oRAqqeAJ9v8Z9Qahsui/aJKTyD4/7h4PFw1ACePr5b jNDb/va/j4mPmp2qehU464U= =t0l2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.aZ1CZl)ytiaAPn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message