Re: booting from extended partitions isn't making any sense

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:18:38 PST


>
> You noted that hda5 is missing here. I also have real troubles with
> extended partitions (created by OS/2 fdisk) and the fdisk 2.0. It
> seems the kernel is doing things right, but fdisk is rather messy
> (I've seen the code). I'd like to update fdisk. Who knows where the
> latest version can be found?
>
>

There's multiple copies of fdisk floating around...I did some work on
fdisk at one time and the kernel to read bsd disk slices...what is
bad is there needs to be a way that fdisk can use the kernel algorithm...

I'm thinking of making bsd disk slice partitions easily identifiable (maybe
starting at minor number= 20?

Or there needs to be some parititioning in genhd so fdisk can also use
these routines...

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marty
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