From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 26 18:16:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-89-203.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.89.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE85837B424 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8R0QfA02285; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009270026.e8R0QfA02285@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Doug White Cc: Zhiui Zhang , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:20:15 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:26:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>> 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. Actually, that's not entirely true. The problem with booting is that you cannot mark an extended partition entry as 'active' (without some nasty, nonstandard hacks). If that were possible, it would be trivial to improve the loader to deal with that case. The kernel most certainly can mount an extended partition as root, however. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message