Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:30:44 +0000 (UTC) From: Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <toto@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Brian T . Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: booting from extended slice Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0203191724310.5385-100000@sdf.lonestar.org> In-Reply-To: <3C96F6B0.E4F7E9AC@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:28:32 -0800 > From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> > To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: Brian T . Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>, > Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <toto@sdf.lonestar.org>, > freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: booting from extended slice > > David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:44:07PM -0500, Brian T . Schellenberger wrote: > > > What good will it do you if do boot it? FreeBSD doesn't support UFS in > > > extended partitions anyway. > > > > Yes it does. Why do you say it doesn't? > > I think he means it can't find it's root there because of > libstand. > > -- Terry > That is what surprised me: after the kernel kicks in everything works fine. It mounts root in the extended slice alright (the only FBSD slice in ad0 is ad0s10): ixtoto# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0a 4071604 2289008 1456868 61% / toto@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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