I guess what Doug meant was (at least as far as I've seen in other postings)
the current FreeBSD boot loader does not support booting from extended
partitions.
G'luck,
Peter
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This sentence was in the past tense.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:25:35AM -0400, Zhiui Zhang wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a
> > > DOS extended partition.
> >
> > Good luck booting it.
>
> Do you mean as long as I can boot it, the kernel itself has no problem
> with being putting into a DOS extended partition? First of all, it seems
> to me that there is no way to put FreeBSD in an extended partition without
> modifying /stand/sysintall.
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