From: | "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:31:47 +0100 |
On Monday, 6. December 2004 02:12, walt wrote: > > i had a look at loader, and it seemed to me that there is logic for > > extended slices... > When you asked for volunteers to patch loader I started looking at the code > also -- and I'm still looking ;o) Can you point out for me which file(s) > contain the relevant code? have a look at src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c; bd_opendisk seems to do the major work. maybe you'll notice something if you compile boot with -DDEBUG > > could you please post your fdisk output for the original > > dfly-in-extended slice setup? i suspect the new FAT32 extended slice ids > > not working correctly. > Note that partition 4 is *not* (of course) the logical partition I referred > to earlier -- it is my gcc34 install of DFly which boots perfectly. My > logical partition containing DFly is ad1s8 which I can mount okay but can't > boot from. now that seems okay. i should extend fdisk to also show extended slice information. cheers simon -- /"\ \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News
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