Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:36:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009271032320.12001-100000@jade> In-Reply-To: <200009270026.e8R0QfA02285@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Mike Smith 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. > > 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. I know this is a minor subject. But Why Linux can be put in an extended partition while FreeBSD cannot? I can not find anywhere (e.g. kern/subr_diskslice.c) in the kernel that prevents this and I know LILO can boot FreeBSD. If it is the problem of booteasy, then we can use other boot loader. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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