From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 1:49:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33EE37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 01:49:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from memphis.mephi.ru (memphis.mephi.ru [194.67.67.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE2843E97 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 01:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timon@memphis.mephi.ru) Received: (from timon@localhost) by memphis.mephi.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) id g9N8nRnA021047 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:49:27 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from timon) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:49:24 +0400 From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot selector and extended partitions Message-ID: <20021023124924.A19793@memphis.mephi.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021020220915.A760@gicco.cablecom.ch> <20021021114207.A42663@memphis.mephi.ru> <20021021110230.A310@gicco.cablecom.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021021110230.A310@gicco.cablecom.ch>; from hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:02:31AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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