Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7 Message-ID: <4e05220e.GBAaOafCcTgMjymv%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106240933580.83085@oceanpt.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106231919320.83085@oceanpt.safeport.com> <D7EC3198-B917-4ACB-9BC2-ACE6D5569C07@my.gd> <4D7F86D5012E084A@> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106240933580.83085@oceanpt.safeport.com>
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doug@safeport.com wrote: > If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, > that would be a very useful howto. _Installing_ it in an "extended partition" is easy enough. geom(8) understands "extended partitions" (although sysinstall does not, so you need to install using Fixit# as for other non-sysinstall cases such as ZFS). The problem is _booting_ it. The code in i386/boot2 and lib/libstand is written to find the / (or /boot) FS on a BSD partition of an fdisk "primary partition" (aka slice), or in a GPT partition, and would need additions to handle fdisk "extended partitions".
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