Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-24 Thread Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev
On 23.10.2002, at 15:22, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > Can FreeBSD be run in a logical (extended?) partition? > > Not out-of-box, but I've made it do so. > Is it an easy patch (<1h :-) ? > If yes would you make it available? well, most difficult is to install it first, after patching installed versio

Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 23 at 14:55, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev spoke: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > Can FreeBSD be run in a logical (extended?) partition? > Not out-of-box, but I've made it do so. Is it an easy patch (<1h :-) ? If yes would you make it available? -Hanspet

Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-23 Thread Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev
if the default has to be > changed. Never bothered with Linux, especially running from extended, sorry. > > Well, dunno about boot0(boot selector, if I correctly understand > > FreeBSD's booting process), but it was hard to me to make boot1 search > > for FreeBSD in

Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
fault has to be changed. > Well, dunno about boot0(boot selector, if I correctly understand > FreeBSD's booting process), but it was hard to me to make boot1 search > for FreeBSD in extended partitions - I've had to loose some Can FreeBSD be run in a logical (extended?) partition?

Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-23 Thread Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev
> And what is the purpose? > I'd like to chain to Lilo. Do you have Lilo running from extended partition? Well, dunno about boot0(boot selector, if I correctly understand FreeBSD's booting process), but it was hard to me to make boot1 search for FreeBSD in extended par

Re: Booting FreeBSD from extended partitions

2002-07-22 Thread Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev
I'm currently trying to make FreeBSD boot from extended > >> partitions (of course, with help of boot mgr - in my case that's WinNT > >> loader), and not without any progress: After patching /boot/loader to > >> understand EXT_X partition type, I'

Re: Booting FreeBSD from extended partitions

2002-07-21 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:06:24 +0400 On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 02:09:52AM -0400, Brad Laue wrote: >> I'm currently trying to make FreeBSD boot from extended >> partitions (of course

Extended partitions

2002-07-15 Thread Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev
Hello all. I've got some questions related to freebsd bootstrapping process. I've got hdd with zoo of different OSes, and partition table looks quite weird Finally, I've installed fbsd on the last partition and bumped into a wall: boot1 can't load it from such a place, since it ana

Re: Mounting Linux Partitions in Extended Partitions

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:56:45PM -0400, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > Hello! > > I have a machine here that has a SCSI disk that used to have Linux > installed on it. > > When i check fdisk, it appears that there are two partitions, 1 with > 23M that seems to have the boot stuff and kernel,

Mounting Linux Partitions in Extended Partitions

2001-04-15 Thread Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe
Hello! I have a machine here that has a SCSI disk that used to have Linux installed on it. When i check fdisk, it appears that there are two partitions, 1 with 23M that seems to have the boot stuff and kernel, and then one with several Gigs with the actual data (i booted into Linux to make su