james r relyea wrote:
i would appreciate a new freebsd loading scheme more than a replacement
loader. the main annoyance to me is the requirement that freebsd be
loaded in a primary partition. i am not familiar with the structure of
the freebsd partition or what necessitates use of a primary partition.
what i would like could require an overhall of freebsd; however, the
few linux variations i have tested allow the linux system to be loaded in
any partition whether primary or extended.
Why bother with DOS Extended partitions? The functionality already
exists in FreeBSD in the form of nested disk labels. For example:
# gpt show /dev/da0s1h
start size index contents
...
34 2097152 1 GPT part - FreeBSD UFS/UFS2
2097186 8388608 2 GPT part - FreeBSD UFS/UFS2
...
# ls /dev/da0s1h*
/dev/da0s1h /dev/da0s1hp1 /dev/da0s1hp2
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
...
/dev/da0s1hp1 1012974 870852 61086 93% /opt/scratch1
/dev/da0s1hp2 4058062 361276 3372142 10% /opt/pkg_build
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