Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:24:30 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot loader cant identify ntfs? Message-ID: <20050518202430.GA30683@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1472.172.16.0.199.1116447692.squirrel@172.16.0.1> References: <1472.172.16.0.199.1116447692.squirrel@172.16.0.1>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:21:32PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a ntfs > partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ? There isn't enough space to support all 256 partition types in the 512 bytes of space available to the mbr. Fancy multi-sector options are available, but we don't provide them. Many people consider this a feature. :) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCi6R9XY6L6fI4GtQRAmVTAKDiCPs0BYKbuxe5GXBjv+yrj5VHvACdH5tq ClQ0f9xoCHSVqxQ139DJEc4= =KzEk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--
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