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Zhiui ZhangSep 23, 2000 5:50 pm 
Doug WhiteSep 25, 2000 7:53 pm 
Zhiui ZhangSep 26, 2000 8:25 am 
Peter PentchevSep 26, 2000 8:30 am 
Doug WhiteSep 26, 2000 5:19 pm 
Mike SmithSep 26, 2000 5:26 pm 
Zhiui ZhangSep 27, 2000 7:36 am 
Robert NordierSep 27, 2000 11:47 am 
Subject:Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition
From:Zhiui Zhang (zzh@cs.binghamton.edu)
Date:Sep 27, 2000 7:36:30 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers

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

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