Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 04:04:28 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 boot0ext.s src/sys/boot/i386/boot0ext Makefile Message-ID: <20040331030428.GI756@empiric.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20040331020010.GA53349@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200403261846.i2QIkVuT063179@repoman.freebsd.org> <200403261706.46836.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040326223518.GA78950@dragon.nuxi.com> <4064ED3E.4000407@freebsd.org> <20040327063641.GA85117@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040327071459.GA98009@FreeBSD.org> <20040327072259.GA85580@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzp1xnb3ny5.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040331020010.GA53349@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:00:10PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Sorry, but I'd like to have a useful boot0 -- one that tells me my > > > partition is something other than "???". That can't be done with a > > > 1-sector boot0. > > > > Are you sure that the bug you're seeing isn't the one that was fixed > > by this commit: > > 99% sure. Our boot0 doesn't understand all possbile MS partition types. I recognised this and was the one who put David up to this. :-) Other things, such as grokking EMBRs to allow boot from extended partitions, or support for serial console other than COM1, can't be done in the 512-byte space we currently have. But because of system incompatibilities, I would emphasize boot0ext remain purely optional; and added to son-of-sysinstall with the relevant warnings. BMS
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