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From: Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <toto@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: booting from extended slice
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:28:32 -0800
> From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
> Cc: Brian T . Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>,
>      Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <toto@sdf.lonestar.org>,
>      freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: booting from extended slice
>
> 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
>
That is what surprised me: after the kernel kicks in everything works fine.
It mounts root in the extended slice alright (the only FBSD slice in ad0
is ad0s10):
ixtoto# df
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0a     4071604  2289008  1456868    61%    /


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