From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 8 14:37:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13E937B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TMA-1.brad-x.com (static-b2-191.highspeed.eol.ca [64.56.236.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809B143E65 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@brad-x.com) Received: from brad-x.com (Discovery.brad-x.com [201.64.15.21]) by TMA-1.brad-x.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9759522104A; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:38:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D52E4BE.1040302@brad-x.com> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:38:06 -0400 From: Brad Laue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020806 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Randy Bush , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: mbr selection list References: <20020808182500.EAEE45D06@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Oberman wrote: >A great deal of effort has been expended in keeping it to 512 bytes >and it is one reason that it does not have the smarts to recognize >NTFS partitions. > > This is something I've never quite been clear on. Boot0 as of 4.2-RELEASE can see my NTFS partitions perfectly well, and I usually resort to installing that version of boot0 on any dual boot system I have running for cosmetic reasons. I've had no issues with this at all, but I'd like to know at some point what the technical issues with that specific version are. Cheers, Brad -- // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message