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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:25:38 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <toto@sdf.lonestar.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: booting from extended slice
Message-ID:  <3C96F602.C2EF90C@mindspring.com>
References:  <200203190148.g2J1mVp25047@sdf.lonestar.org> <20020319024407.751EFBA05@i8k.babbleon.org>

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"Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote:
> I consider this a major FreeBSD weakness but other O/S's don't care so much
> about primary vs. extended and FreeBSD only needs one partition--it'll
> subdivide the rest.

Actually, I can't think of one Microsoft or IBM OS that can
boot from extended partitions.

-- Terry

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