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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:20:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009261719130.43851-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009261119370.8637-100000@opal>

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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, 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? 

Loader(8) can't grok it and the kernel can't mount it as root. 

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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