Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:10:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <toto@sdf.lonestar.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended slice Message-ID: <200203191710.g2JHAvU79526@androcles.com> In-Reply-To: <20020319060543.59C88BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>
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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. 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. -------------- Duane H. Hesser dhh@androcles.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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