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Re: Partition modules
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: Partition modules |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:58:14 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:46, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> The BSD disklabel is a weird special case. Perhaps we need some kind
>> of nested partitions or so. I don't know if that will make sense
>> because I have no knowledge about BSD slices and how they are used.
>
> Take a look at this:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html
>
> Note that you can make a BSD disklabel without any PC partition, if you
> wish. This is not supported by GRUB legacy (except for floppies).
Thanks a lot for this information.
If I understand the GRUB 2 partition code correctly, such partition is
identified with only a command, right? For example: (hd0,,a). Am I
right about this?
At the moment the partition (slice) type is checked to figure out if
there is a BSD partition. If so, the BSD partitions are iterated.
How about the apple, amiga, etc? Does it work the same? Otherwise
code might be shared.
Because I do not have *BSD installed on any system I can not work on
this, but it might be worthwhile to think about this and make it a
todo item related to the PPC port.
Thanks,
Marco
Re: Partition modules, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2004/11/18
Re: Partition modules, Timothy Baldwin, 2004/11/22
Re: Partition modules, Marco Gerards, 2004/11/24