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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Partition modules
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:20:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411181220.04322.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765434epy.fsf@marco.marco-g.com>

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).

Okuji



  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-18 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-17 19:25 Partition modules Marco Gerards
2004-11-18  3:50 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-11-18  5:09   ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-11-18  8:13     ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-18  8:16   ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-18  9:32   ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-11-18 10:46     ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-18 11:20       ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2004-11-18 13:58         ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-18  9:28 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-11-18 10:40   ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-23  1:29 ` Timothy Baldwin
2004-11-23 15:12   ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-24 19:15 ` Marco Gerards
2004-11-30 17:55   ` Marco Gerards
2004-12-03 17:18     ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-12-04 15:39       ` Marco Gerards
2004-12-04 17:03         ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
     [not found]         ` <200412041230.17136.mjflick@gnu.org>
2004-12-04 18:41           ` Marco Gerards

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