From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 17:54:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA17654 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 17:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17573; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 17:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ac20467; 9 Jul 96 0:54 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa15593; 9 Jul 96 1:35 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA04068; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 23:08:14 GMT Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 23:08:14 GMT Message-Id: <199607082308.XAA04068@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: gpalmer@freebsd.org CC: k4ef0098@kiss.uni-lj.si, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <25198.836850986@palmer.demon.co.uk> (message from Gary Palmer on Mon, 08 Jul 1996 19:36:26 +0100) Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD into a logical partition Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Gary Palmer writes: > > 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 Yep, the boot code was what I had in mind and I should have said that more clearly. Out of interest, I know it's possible to access DOS ``logical partitions'' (using slices 5-32); am I right in thinking it's possible to similarly access a FreeBSD ``logical partition'' from a regular FreeBSD slice? > (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. Oh, I'd forgotten about the 3 stage boot process. In that case, pretend you don't have the source. :-) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/