From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 15:11:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB9637BCC1 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115215>; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:11:11 +1000 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Booting from Extended DOS partition To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Jun13.081111est.115215@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:11:09 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I notice that the FreeBSD bootloader (boot0) explicitly prohibits booting from Extended DOS partitions (type 5). As far as I can see, an Extended DOS partition looks like a virtual disk - sector 0 contains a partition table explaining how that partition is broken up into secondary partitions. Given this, why can't it contain an MBR and allow booting? Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message