On 09/27/2011 14:24, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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. Correct. > (I don't know if alternative bootcode such as grub > can boot FreeBSD within an extended partition). Well the installer won't even look there, so you'd have to do a fair bit of gymnastics to even get it there in the first place. And given the difficulty that grub sometimes has with booting it from primary partitions I wouldn't be hopeful, even if the FreeBSD late-stage boot loader could do it, which I highly doubt. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/Received on Tue Sep 27 2011 - 19:38:56 UTC
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