Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:11:09 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting from Extended DOS partition Message-ID: <00Jun13.081111est.115215@border.alcanet.com.au>
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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
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