From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 11:38:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28435 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA28414 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id TAA25200; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:36:27 +0100 (BST) To: James Raynard cc: k4ef0098@kiss.uni-lj.si, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD into a logical partition In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jul 1996 12:32:58 GMT." <199607081232.MAA01150@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 19:36:26 +0100 Message-ID: <25198.836850986@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk James Raynard wrote in message ID <199607081232.MAA01150@jraynard.demon.co.uk>: > No, FreeBSD requires its own ``primary partition'' (to use the DOS > terminology). I don't know of any work being done that would allow > what you want, but you have the source... :-) Even if it was possible, you have the interesting problem that I don't think our boot code will allow you to boot from a non-primary partition (infact I'm fairly certain it won't), and the boot sector is pretty full with the current code as it is. This sort of effort will have to wait for the fabled 3 stage boot process I think. (Of course, using fbsdboot is a cheat, and may work, if you hack it up a bit, but it has it's own problems). Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info