Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:49:24 +0400 From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev" <timon@stabilis.ru> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot selector and extended partitions Message-ID: <20021023124924.A19793@memphis.mephi.ru> In-Reply-To: <20021021110230.A310@gicco.cablecom.ch>; from hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:02:31AM %2B0200 References: <20021020220915.A760@gicco.cablecom.ch> <20021021114207.A42663@memphis.mephi.ru> <20021021110230.A310@gicco.cablecom.ch>
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:02:31AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > can I make the Freebsd boot selector chain to an extended partition > > > similar like switching to an alternate disk? > > Well, you can patch it :) > Has anybody already done such a patch? > > And what is the purpose? > I'd like to chain to Lilo. Do you have Lilo running from extended partition? Well, dunno about boot0(boot selector, if I correctly understand FreeBSD's booting process), but it was hard to me to make boot1 search for FreeBSD in extended partitions - I've had to loose some functionality.... Sinceherely yours, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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