Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:30:28 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition Message-ID: <20000926183028.D2616@ringwraith.office1.bg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009261119370.8637-100000@opal>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:25:35AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251953350.89244-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009261119370.8637-100000@opal>
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I guess what Doug meant was (at least as far as I've seen in other postings) the current FreeBSD boot loader does not support booting from extended partitions. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence was in the past tense. On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:25:35AM -0400, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > > > > > > > I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a > > > DOS extended partition. > > > > Good luck booting it. > > Do you mean as long as I can boot it, the kernel itself has no problem > with being putting into a DOS extended partition? First of all, it seems > to me that there is no way to put FreeBSD in an extended partition without > modifying /stand/sysintall. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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