From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 15 3:58:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68F237B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 03:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from memphis.mephi.ru (memphis.mephi.ru [194.67.67.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503DF43E58 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 03:58:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timon@memphis.mephi.ru) Received: (from timon@localhost) by memphis.mephi.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6FAwnJ33759 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:58:49 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from timon) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:58:48 +0400 From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Extended partitions Message-ID: <20020715145848.A33029@memphis.mephi.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all. I've got some questions related to freebsd bootstrapping process. I've got hdd with zoo of different OSes, and partition table looks quite weird.... Finally, I've installed fbsd on the last partition and bumped into a wall: boot1 can't load it from such a place, since it analyzes partition table kept in MBR (hence only first 4 partitions can be analyzed).... Is there any suggestions on hacking boot1 code to support recursion into extended partions? And also, hacking fdisk code (well, I wrote small utility which dumps whole partition table to screen, but fdisk.c looks rather wierd..? Sinceherely yours, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message