Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:09:17 +0300 (MSK) From: "."@babolo.ru To: dhh@androcles.com (Duane H. Hesser) Cc: bts@babbleon.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, toto@sdf.lonestar.org, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended slice Message-ID: <200203192209.BAA26551@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <200203191710.g2JHAvU79526@androcles.com> from "Duane H. Hesser" at "Mar 19, 2 09:10:56 am"
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Duane H. Hesser writes: > 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. I _use_ fdisk to create extended partitions sometimes. It WORKS! Just fdisk -u adXn where n is number of partition (which can be extended itself too) to create extended partition in > -------------- > Duane H. Hesser > dhh@androcles.com -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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