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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: booting from extended slice
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David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:44:07PM -0500, Brian T . Schellenberger wrote:
> > What good will it do you if do boot it?  FreeBSD doesn't support UFS in
> > extended partitions anyway.
> 
> Yes it does.  Why do you say it doesn't?

I think he means it can't find it's root there because of
libstand.

-- Terry

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