Re: boot selector and extended partitions

[Artem 'Zazoobr'; Ignatiev]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> > Do you have Lilo running from extended partition?
> Linux can be run in a logical partition.
> But Lilo can't save the last selection as default for next boot.
> It's default selection must be reconfigured if the default has to be
> changed.
Never bothered with Linux, especially running from extended, sorry.
> > Well, dunno about boot0(boot selector, if I correctly understand
> > FreeBSD's booting process), but it was hard to me to make boot1 search
> > for FreeBSD in extended partitions - I've had to loose some
> Can FreeBSD be run in a logical (extended?) partition?
Not out-of-box, but I've made it do so.

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Re: boot selector and extended partitions

[Artem 'Zazoobr'; Ignatiev]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:02:31AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> > > can I make the Freebsd boot selector chain to an extended partition
> > > similar like switching to an alternate disk?
> > Well, you can patch it :)
> Has anybody already done such a patch?
> > And what is the purpose?
> I'd like to chain to Lilo.
Do you have Lilo running from extended partition?
Well, dunno about boot0(boot selector, if I correctly understand
FreeBSD's booting process), but it was hard to me to make boot1 search
for FreeBSD in extended partitions - I've had to loose some
functionality
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