OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
[snip]
> I understand what you and Stefan want to mean, but my situation
> doesn't change. Because you are going to a wrong
> direction. Apparently, they (I don't know who they were :p) have
> already devised a much better way, that is to say, extended and
> logical partitions. Although the worst thing is the limitation of the
> number of primary partitions, the next worse is that many operating
> systems don't have support for installing themselves into logical
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> partitions. So what you should do is to ask the maintainers to extend
> the operating systems or to write patches for them yourself. Adding a
> workaround into GRUB is the last resort, from my point of view.
[snip]
I have put a disklabel on a logical partition under
FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE, and then copied my FreeBSD partitions to this
same logical partition.
The Hurd, as well as FreeBSD, (and of course Grub too) can access
this logical `slice' without any problems, but the FreeBSD boot
loader cannot boot the `a' partition.
Now, if instead of wasting their time on a fancy boot loader
written in Forth, the FreeBSD team had just made their kernel
multi-boot compliant, then of course Grub could be used to do the
booting.
The real problem is that there are just too many arrogant
operating systems out there (Solaris, Unixware, Plan9, Windows,
OS/2, etc) that require a primary partition to be used for booting
from.
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Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
