From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 1: 7: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from c3-dbn-108.dial-up.net (c3-dbn-108.dial-up.net [196.33.200.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D66E37B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by c3-dbn-108.dial-up.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA19347; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:04:59 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200008310804.KAA19347@c3-dbn-108.dial-up.net> Subject: Re: Booting Linux with FreeBSD booter (hack needed) In-Reply-To: <39ADF00C.EEE4C3A@home.com> from "Gary T. Corcoran" at "Aug 31, 2000 01:41:32 am" To: garycor@home.com (Gary T. Corcoran) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:04:56 +0200 (SAST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-No-Archive: Yes X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > Now since the MBR booter "knows" that you don't boot DOS/Windows > from an "extended" partition (type 5), it doesn't offer it as > a boot choice. Now I could probably hack the booter (boot0 ?) > to accept type 5 as a valid choice. But before I risk losing > my whole (work) disk by messing with the MBR :), does anyone know if > I do this, and install LILO (the linux loader) into my "extended" > partition, will the MBR booter find the LILO booter to really > be able to boot Linux? Or will the "extended dos" partition > still confuse the MBR booter - that is, not find LILO where it > expects it? Unfortunately any hack based around allowing selection of type 5 partitions won't work. There's really no simple fix to get boot0 booting stuff from within extended partitions. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com // Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas voir rnordier@FreeBSD.org // Doit se tenir tout seul, et casser son miroir. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message