Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_acm.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:24:39 +1000
On 2011-Sep-26 21:29:18 -0700, Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>MBR allows 4 slices (which Windows and most of the world call
>partitions). Windows also
>allows the creation of "Extended Partitions, but FreeBSD does not
>support these. They result
>in device named with an 's' for slice. E.g. "da0s1".

To be pedantic, the FreeBSD bootcode does not support _booting_ off
extended partitions.  Once it is booted, FreeBSD has no problems
accessing them.  (I don't know if alternative bootcode such as grub
can boot FreeBSD within an extended partition).

Extended partitions show up as slice numbers 5 through 8 - eg da0s5

-- 
Peter Jeremy

Received on Tue Sep 27 2011 - 19:24:43 UTC

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