From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 21:38:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AEB1065670 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C4414F6E9; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E82426F.9030904@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:38:55 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110912 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy References: <201109260927.02540.jhb@freebsd.org> <201109262035.OAA17199@lariat.net> <20110927021559.GF57708@in-addr.com> <20110927212439.GB82240@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20110927212439.GB82240@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:38:56 -0000 On 09/27/2011 14:24, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Sep-26 21:29:18 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> MBR allows 4 slices (which Windows and most of the world call >> partitions). Windows also >> allows the creation of "Extended Partitions, but FreeBSD does not >> support these. They result >> in device named with an 's' for slice. E.g. "da0s1". > > To be pedantic, the FreeBSD bootcode does not support _booting_ off > extended partitions. Once it is booted, FreeBSD has no problems > accessing them. Correct. > (I don't know if alternative bootcode such as grub > can boot FreeBSD within an extended partition). Well the installer won't even look there, so you'd have to do a fair bit of gymnastics to even get it there in the first place. And given the difficulty that grub sometimes has with booting it from primary partitions I wouldn't be hopeful, even if the FreeBSD late-stage boot loader could do it, which I highly doubt. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/