Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:37:57 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended partition Message-ID: <20020313143757.A2412@bsag.ch> In-Reply-To: <15503.21363.148734.631682@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1016457971.03f29d@mired.org on Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:26:11AM -0600 References: <20020313113309.A3437@bsag.ch> <15503.17117.87903.17181@guru.mired.org> <20020313135814.A2165@bsag.ch> <15503.19792.322463.709200@guru.mired.org> <20020313140731.B2165@bsag.ch> <15503.21363.148734.631682@guru.mired.org>
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On Mar 13 at 07:26, Mike Meyer spoke: > Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> types: > > Are there OSes that don't have some kind of boot block in their own > > partition (or maybe in the extended partition) ? > > Not that I know of. But I always use the way described in the grub > info document for each OS if I'm going to boot that OS. OK. I just wonder whether there is a real advantage. Probably when there has to be passed different parameters for testing or so. But maybe this is only needed for Linux. I think FreeBSD allows kernel configuration within the boot sector that's located in its own partition. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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