From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 5:38: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.bsag.ch (ns.bsag.ch [62.2.201.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6336D37B404 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:37:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.bsag.ch (root@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g2DDe1X15140 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:40:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from ns.bsag.ch (bs13.bsag.ch [192.168.1.13]) by gw.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g2DDe1J15136 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:40:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from bs82.bsag.ch (bs82 [192.168.1.82]) by ns.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g2DDbvP03344 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:37:57 +0100 Received: (from hpr@localhost) by bs82.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id g2DDbvD02491 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:37:57 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:37:57 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended partition Message-ID: <20020313143757.A2412@bsag.ch> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mar 13 at 07:26, Mike Meyer spoke: > Hanspeter Roth 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