On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:10:56 -0800 (PST) > From: Duane H. Hesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Brian T.Schellenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: booting from extended slice > > > On 19-Mar-02 Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > > > Sorry, I've gotten the message now . . . (my mail takes too long to send . . > > .) > > the partitions do work just the install doesn't. > > > > This seems like an especially silly situation to me . . . I always thought > > that the filesystem was the limitation here . . . > > > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 12:34 am, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > >| On Monday 18 March 2002 10:49 pm, 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? > >| > > As far as I can tell, the only 'culprit' in this is fdisk itself.
If you want to boot from an extended slice, you'll have to modify /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot1.s boot2.c and the loader. It should be easy (;-)) to modify fdisk to deal with extended partitions but i do not think it would be enough. > The kernel recognizes logical partitions in the extended slice, and > once the device nodes are made, they can be used normally. > > I'm running a multiple-boot system in which the FreeBSD /usr partion > is on a logical slice in the extended slice. It was necessary to > prepare the slices under Linux, and to use a little Holographic > Shell magic (fortunately, sysinstall allowed me to mount a remote > filesystem to which the necessary tools were copied) to partition > and "premount" /usr, after which sysinstall was quite content to > install to it. > > I've often thought since that it would be nice if someone would > "smarten up" fdisk a bit (including its incarnation within sysinstall). > I can't think of anything else right now that would be needed. fdisk and sysinstall seem to use different code so both should be modified. > > -------------- > Duane H. Hesser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
