Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:10:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, jmd17@columbia.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: using an extended partition for freebsd Message-ID: <20021017101055.GB14331@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <oiwuoi5fvi.uoi@localhost.localdomain> References: <200210161434.g9GEYJe19859@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <oiwuoi5fvi.uoi@localhost.localdomain>
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On 2002-10-16 12:43, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> wrote: > > It just needs slices (which are called partitions by Microsloth). > > Actually, it doesn't. FreeBSD can just have what it calls "partitions", > in which case there won't be a "partition table". But "they" recommend > having one slice anyway; I guess to support software (eg, on a Linux > disk) thatexpects the more common disk layout. Some (broken in my opinion) BIOS implementations will refuse or fail to boot from disks that do not have a "valid partition table". They are simply broken, since it's not that hard to load the master boot record of the first system disk in memory and run its code, but their very existence makes disks with "valid" partition tables a necessity :-/ Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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